Adding shapefiles to NationalMap

[dbutrovski]

If understood correctly it is suggested improvement to enable upload of user shapefiles from a location other than local PC. Here is the complete user email:

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Hello,
I've got a professional background in cartography / spatial information and was interested in adding ESRI Shapefiles I have created with GIS software to the National Map.

I have created files at https://github.com/johncleverdon/RFI/ but when in NationalMap, using the Upload -> My Data -> Add Web Data option to do this, I get an error message reading:
"A network request error occurred
Data may not be available or display correctly due to data custodian's service outage. Please try reloading the map, accessing the data at a later stage, or selecting a different dataset."
and under Developer Details, the following:
"Data could not be added
An error occurred while loading the catalog item.
Failed to load https://github.com/johncleverdon/RFI/RFI_EastWestRail_Stage1.zip mapItems
Data may not be available or display correctly due to data custodian's service outage. Please try reloading the map, accessing the data at a later stage, or selecting a different dataset.
An error occurred parsing the provided data as JSON. This may indicate that the file is invalid or that it is not supported.
Request has failed.
value@https://nationalmap.gov.au/build/3.TerriaMap.js:1:197666
De/e/<@https://nationalmap.gov.au/build/3.TerriaMap.js:68:151134
c@https://nationalmap.gov.au/build/3.TerriaMap.js:68:133295
fe/w/<@https://nationalmap.gov.au/build/3.TerriaMap.js:68:134652
fe/v/</<@https://nationalmap.gov.au/build/3.TerriaMap.js:68:133658
de@https://nationalmap.gov.au/build/3.TerriaMap.js:68:139302
s@https://nationalmap.gov.au/build/3.TerriaMap.js:68:139545
This may indicate one of the following:
• The server hostname could not be resolved
• The server did not respond to the request - or is temporarily unavailable
• The server denied Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) access to this URL
• There is a problem with your internet connection
If you entered the link manually, please verify that the link is correct."

How am I able to successfully able to add this data to share, please?
I was thinking of having something like a much simpler version of https://nationalmap.gov.au/#share=s-m4XpUHiSNri3DgNW2yruuismGtq (which is why I chose GitHub to locate my data).
Thanks,
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[nf-s]

Hi @dbutrovski

Sorry for the delayed response.

The issue here is with the shapefile URL - in order to use files stored in a GitHub repository, you must use their CDN URL

For example

• https://github.com/johncleverdon/RFI/blob/main/RFI_EastWestRail_Stage1.zip
• Becomes https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johncleverdon/RFI/main/RFI_EastWestRail_Stage1.zip

The CDN URL can also be found by clicking the "Raw" button

You can see the CDN URL working in this share-link

• https://nationalmap.gov.au/#share=s-q0GWvZ0GueSoKU6m9CaPstgNnqb

Thanks!