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...
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...
