Add Geology to RAVE as Basemap

[joewheaton]

Discussed in https://github.com/Riverscapes/riverscapes-website/discussions/29

^{Originally posted by stephen-bennett November 30, 2021}
I'd like to request that a geology layer be added to riverscapes projects as it is a fundamental driver of riverscape form and function

[joewheaton]

@philipbaileynar I believe that your suggestion of

My recommendation is that we add this as a basemap in QRAVE

is spot on. My understanding is that for services that work in both Arc and Q, we can just add to the basemaps.xml?

@jtgilbert this sort of explains it, but is out of date documentation: http://rave.riverscapes.xyz/Technical_Reference/base-maps.html... see Riverscapes/RaveAddIn#182

[philipbaileynar]

There seem to be so many web mapping standards and each has a different URL format. This is an ESRI web mapping service and I'm unsure how it will play with both Q and Arc. I'm not sure we have tackled one of these before.

I recommend experimenting with your local copy of BaseMaps.xml for both QRAVE and ArcRAVE to see what works.

[jtgilbert]

@philipbaileynar I have it displaying in basemaps for both Q and Arc. However, it brings in a legend in Q and does not in Arc. Is this something you guys have dealt with before?

[philipbaileynar]

We have definitely encountered very different behaviour between how the two platforms handle web mapping layers! Sorry, I don't have much more to add.

Remind me, do other web mapping layers in ArcGIS display legends?

[jtgilbert]

Yeah it looks like they generally don't. Should I push the changes as is then?

[philipbaileynar]

Web mapping layers are the wild west of GIS!

I think push. Can do no harm. Just less useful in ArcGIS. The original request for this layer came from a Mac/QGIS user...