In the first article in our series on the ArcGIS Server API for Flex we covered some basic concepts including how to create maps and add layers. We covered both tiled and dynamic map service layers. In this brief post you will learn how to apply a definition...
The Google Maps team continues to add really useful functionality to the Maps API. Now the Google Maps API team has introduced a new Elevation Service that enables applications to determine elevation profiles. The Maps API v3 contains an ElevationService class or...
This is a guest post from John Schaeffer of Juniper GIS. John is the creator and instructor for our Working with Geodatabase and Linear Referencing e-learning course (self-paced and instructor led). In this example, you can see that we have addresses for 100 East...
Another fantastic data visualization tool has been released by Google. The Google Public Data Explorer (currently in labs) makes large publicly available datasets available for exploration, visualization, and communication. Visualizations of public data can be...
Google has announced a new Geocoding Web Service which contains a number of improvements over its previous version including the following: A flatter response format for address components that is easier to parse The ability to tag an address component with multiple...