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...
We commonly get questions regarding how information can be read from an XML file and displayed in Google Maps as markers. In this post I’d like to detail how this is accomplished through the Google Maps API. By way of example we are going to examine a simple...
In the GIS world heat maps are a graphical representation of point data on a map through the use of colors that indicate the density of some variable such as crime incidents or traffic accidents. Heat maps let users quickly visualize the density of locations. Being...
