In our last post we introduced the topic of HTML5 for GIS web and mobile developers. This post is a continuation of our HTML5 series of posts. Introduction HTML5 introduces the new concept of ‘semantic markup’. Let’s try and illustrate what we mean by semantic markup...
Today we're beginning a new series of posts covering the use of HTML5 for web and mobile GIS developers. 2010 - HTML5 Takes Off Google, Microsoft and Apple have all been shouting from the rooftops about HTML5 since around 2010 and have already started implementing...
This is a guest post from Ann Stark (Twitter @StarkAnn) at The GIS Studio Blog. Ann has put together some really nice posts on the subject of using Python with ArcGIS Desktop. Check out her blog! In repeated automated tasks, I often have to delete a set of data I am...
Today we're releasing a lecture and exercise from our upcoming (begins April 16th) web based course Building Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications. This course will teach you how to build high performance, attractive mobile applications for the iOS, Android, and...
There are essentially three types of mobile application development including native, web, and hybrid solutions. What most people associate with mobile applications or apps are native applications. These are applications developed specifically for a particular...
Our last post introduced you to Google Fusion Tables, and today we’ll take it one step further and actually upload some data to Google Fusion Tables and create some basic maps. In this post you’ll learn how to import your data to Google Fusion Tables and explore...
Google Fusion Tables is an excellent way to create and share visualizations of data in map, chart, and tabular formats. Today we’re starting a new series of blog posts designed to get you up to speed with using this fantastic platform. We’ll also be releasing a free...
Spanish language versions of our courses are now available for select courses. For more information please visit our new website. Courses include: ArcGIS Desktop 101 GIS Programming 101 for ArcGIS 10 Open Source GIS Bootcamp Introduction to Programming the Google...
File handling with Python is a very important topic for GIS programmers. Text files have long been used as an interchange format for exchanging data between systems. They are simple, cross-platform, and easy to process. Comma and tab delimited text files are among...
ArcGIS Online has enabled the capability for you to add layers from a file such as a shapefile compressed into a zip file, delimited text file (.txt or .csv), or a GPS Exchange file (.gpx) when creating a map using the free online map viewer. This allows even more...