Ever feel like your beautiful web map is trapped in the confines of your monitor? Do you wish its bounty could spill out beyond the stifling domain of 1920×1080? Here’s how to trick a browser’s device emulation tools to capture enormous screenshots. Now you can export your screen as though it were the size of a billboard. So many pixels. I’ll use it to export huge maps from the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer.
0:00 A really nice little intro.
0:33 How to create a fake (and potentially gigantic) device in the browser’s device emulator. You only have to do this part once.
1:33 Capture huuuuuge screenshots at the emulated dimensions.
1:50 Profit.
It’s a useful hack for exporting your ArcGIS Online web maps and apps at absurd sizes. Printing a huge poster for the Esri User Conference? Check. Sending a hero-shot image of your cool dashboard to a plotter? Check. Engineering need a print of your site plan at absurd resolution? Check. Marketing wants your map for a page in a glorious brochure? Check. Design team needs exceptionally huge map images for whatever it is that they do? Check.
Happy pixel-pushing! Love, John