Shared Update is Shared Administration

Here’s the setup: You’ve carefully crafted a web map and application in ArcGIS Online. The data is perfect, the configurations are solid, and you’re ready to share it with your team. But then, you notice something alarming — edits are possible when they shouldn’t be. Despite your best efforts to lock things down, the data is still editable in ways you may not want. This was the exact situation we faced recently. Here’s how we untangled the mystery and discovered (via tech support) a hidden pitfall in group permissions that every ArcGIS Online user should know about.

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Camp Ellis Becomes Ellis City

Nestled in the rural expanses of western Illinois, the remnants of Camp Ellis stand as a testament to a bygone era. This World War II training camp, located near the small town of Ipava in Fulton County, was a bustling hub of military activity with a population over 40,000 at it’s peak. We at Maurer-Stutz Geospatial Services have revived the old footprint of Camp Ellis and used it as a demonstration location for our GIS data, solutions, and applications. We call it: Ellis City

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