Publishing an ArcGIS Online Map

You have created your ArcGIS Online account; this account gives you limited access to www.ArcGIS.com. You can still do a lot of things with the free account, such as create, share, and utilize maps from your local web server.

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You can check out the additional features and pricing by subscribing to ArcGIS Online at:

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/purchase

In this section, we will create our first ArcGIS Online map. To do that, we will upload our Bestaurants data. I have converted the Bestaurants database to a friendly format supported by ArcGIS Online. It is available in the supporting files that are provided for this Appendix. Before you continue, download the supporting file for this Appendix from the folder labeled 2955OT_AA and copy them on to your local drive. Follow these steps to create your first ArcGIS Online map:

1. After you log in from the main menu, click on My Content. This is where all your maps can be found. You can use the...