Publishing layer packages using ArcGIS Pro

You have now experienced how you are able to publish files to ArcGIS Online. This includes GIS files such as shapefiles, and non-GIS files such as CSV files. So far, you have done this without using ArcGIS Pro. However, you can publish content to ArcGIS Online directly from ArcGIS Pro.

ArcGIS Pro can not only use content which has been published to ArcGIS Online, but it can also be used to author content. Similar to how you published the shapefile to ArcGIS Online, you can publish a layer from a map in ArcGIS Pro as a layer package. The layer package will contain all the layer property settings you configure in ArcGIS Pro, along with the data. The data referenced by the layer can be stored in various formats, including geodatabase feature classes, shapefiles, spreadsheets, and more. This is useful when you need to share information with someone that is not on your network or that does not have direct access to your GIS data.

In this recipe, you will...