Emoji Map Layer

Show emoji on your ArcGIS map.

How to Use

1. Create a Hosted Feature Service on ArcGIS Online
2. Create an attribute column to store the emoji names.
3. Fill in the attribute column with emoji labels from here.
4. Create a web map that contains the Hosted Feature Service.
5. Load this url, replacing the ID of your web map and the attribute column name:

   https://gavinr.github.io/emoji-map-layer/?webmap=YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY&attribute=ZZZZZ
   

URL Parameters

• webmap - ID of the web map to use.
• layer - (optional) ID of a Feature Layer within the web map. Default: will arbitrarily choose the first FeatureLayer it finds.
• attribute - (optional) attribute column of where to look for the emoji name. Default: emoji
• attribute_prefix - (optional) string that will be prepended to each attribute, main usage is flag-. Default: [nothing]

Examples

• https://gavinr.github.io/emoji-map-layer/?webmap=4c310d1dcb1340bca7230e077c630ac2&attribute=ISO&attribute_prefix=flag_
• https://gavinr.github.io/emoji-map-layer/?webmap=745ce18cfc0549b6a01be05cb9634a83&layer=172e920e3cd-layer-0

Resources

• Emoji name catalog
• Flags (note about Windows 10): https://emojipedia.org/flags/

Credit

• https://github.com/milesj/emojibase
• https://github.com/nolanlawson/emoji-picker-element
• https://js.arcgis.com