this is urgently needed / mission critical.
Open Data is amazing. However, it's nearly useless at present because it loads in to a new ArcGIS.com AGOL window as a Feature Service. Most of the time layers don't load or error out. (Imagine loading all road segments in a county as a Feature Layer.. fail.) Or it pops up several warnings about scale and not all features loaded.
Open Data is the PERFECT solution for agencies or counties to have all their data instantly viewable, and let users mashup several layers together, i.e. only the data they want and not a bunch of layers they don't want. We're quite looking forward to it.
However until they have Open data load dynamically and AGOL loads dynamic layers, it won't be useful as such. Even feature layers with less number features, they load much slower than a dynamic layer. Dynamic should be AGOL / OpenData default. (I don't see why it wouldn't be.. unless Editing or something specific to feature layers was required?)
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