For those of you who develop using the ArcGIS JavaScript API, have you ever wanted to measure a feature selected on the map? By extending the Measurement dijit, we can add a link to the map.infoWindow object, then add a click event handler to make the measurement dijit to measure the selected feature. The code […]
Month: June 2015
Last week, I talked about why Python was a better first language for a GIS professional to learn. Today, I’d like to flip that, and explain why JavaScript is a better first programming language for those in the GIS field. Have I had a change of heart? Not really, but keep reading. Let’s look at
TL;DR: We’ll learn why Python makes us happy, and why JavaScript makes us cry. In the geospatial community, there’s a big push to learn coding. With a little programming skill, you can collect data, transform it, analyze it, and publish the results. Popular GIS software platforms make it easy to run scripts and publish webpages
At Bruce Harris and Associates, we’ve helped a lot of our clients share their maps through ArcGIS Online (AGOL). Many of these clients also have high quality aerial photography that provide high resolution at the ground level. However, when they try to mix their high quality tiled map services with basemaps provided by ESRI, things
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ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook by Daniela Cristiana Docan delivers detailed step-by-step technical instructions to help you get the most out of ArcGIS for Desktop. As a technical “cookbook”, it contains over 60 “recipes” to perform many common and advanced tasks in ArcGIS for Desktop. The book is available through Packt Publishing, and also on Amazon.
Recently, I downloaded the new Visual Studio Code from Microsoft. You know, the company famous for software wonders such as SharePoint, Excel, and Internet Explorer 6. Well, they’re stepped into the Web IDE market with this new project, and they’re doing some surprising things with it. First, they’re making it available for free. Second, they’ve
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