The ArcPy Mapping module, released with ArcGIS 10 provides a number of capabilities including the management of map documents and layers, printing, exporting, and ArcGIS Server publishing as well as map automation and the creation of PDF map books. In this post 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...
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...
I’m really impressed with the recently announced World Topographic base map from ESRI. As James Fee noted on his his blog, “the cartography just catches your eye.” According to ESRI the map is designed to be used as a basemap by GIS professionals...
I’m surprised the announcement that ESRI is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring ArcGIS Server into its cloud computing environment isn’t getting more attention. This, in my opinion, is a significant development even though it will...
