Printing and exporting maps is obviously one of the most commonly performed ArcGIS tasks. The new Arcpy.mapping module provides several functions that you can use to automate your routine print and export tasks. In this post we’ll examine Arcpy.mapping functions you...
In this post I will describe how you can use a third party clustering tool in your AGIS JavaScript API applications. Clustering is an excellent technique for visualizing lots of point data. We’ve all seen applications where there were so many points that they...
One of the most difficult tasks for many web developers building GIS applications is designing and creating the user interface. The ArcGIS Server API for JavaScript and Dojo greatly simplifies this task. Dojo’s layout dijits provide a simple, efficient way to create...
Note: This is a guest post by Joe Ramsey and Jared Garza, two members of my Spring 2010 “GIS Applications” class at San Antonio College. One of the courses required for an Associate of Applied Science Degree in GIS at San Antonio College is titled “GIS...
ArcGIS Server can perform a number of different tasks. In this article we will introduce the Query Task and you’ll see how it can be used with the ArcGIS Server API for Flex to query data in a map service. A Query Task can be an attribute, spatial, or...