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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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
I’ve got another ArcGIS JavaScript API hack for you, and this time we’re going to look at the draw toolbar, a tool used to interactively draw graphics on a web map. This post was inspired by a question I was pulled in on over at ESRI’s Geonet. The question revolved around capturing the beginning of
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ESRI has made testing an ArcGIS REST Service somewhat easy. The REST services provide plenty of data in HTML format, as well as forms for testing input. But, there are some improvements that we can make. I’ve created a set of tools to work with ArcGIS Server. Testing ArcGIS REST Services just got easier through
EDIT: As of version 3.11, ESRI has updated the ArcGIS JavaScript API so that this hack is no longer necessary. The returnDistinctValues parameter works just fine. Maybe I should publish a few more of these so that other issues I have with the API can get fixed :). One of the handy things about ArcGIS Server
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It’s well into 2014, and my blog has collected a bit of dust. So, I thought I should pull out the Swiffer and clean this puppy up. I’ve decided to give in to all the pressures of presenting well in an interwebz-related profession. So, for my first blog post in what I hope to be
In the last four months, I’ve had the opportunity to work with Packt publishers as a technical reviewer for one of their books: Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript by Eric Pimpler. As a GIS developer who works with this stuff all every day, I enjoyed the book and was glad to
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I’ve enjoyed the last week working on an app for ESRI’s 100 lines or less competition. In it, ESRI wants to see what kind of mapping apps you can write using their JavaScript API and only 100 lines JavaScript code. Winners will be announced on the last day of ESRI’s International Developers Summit on March
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