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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
