As a GIS web application developer you want to focus on building functionality specific to the application you are constructing. Spending valuable time and effort adding basic GIS functions such as zooming and panning to your application detract from what should be...
Last time we discussed the high level details of the Read, Identity, Write, and Notification APIs that together comprise what the Dojo Data API. These abstract APIs are implemented by various core implementations called stores that read specific dataset types...
As a GIS web application developer you have many choices when it comes to developing web based mapping applications. The new JavaScript APIs including ArcGIS Server, Google Maps, Bing Maps (still can’t get used to calling Virtual Earth by its new name),...
As I mentioned in the first post in this series the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API provides easy access to the functionality provided by Dojo since it was built directly on top of the framework. This means that you can access everything within Dojo base and core as...
User expectations for web mapping applications have changed dramatically in the past few years thanks largely to Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth technologies which brought “Web 2.0” to the masses and forever changed our expectations of how these applications...
