Creating Layer visibility controls for web maps can be a pain. If you’ve tried to implement complicated web maps or “ArcMap on the web” applications, you know what I mean. So, when ESRI released the LayerList widget in v. 3.14 of their JavaScript API, I had to try it out. The LayerList I found the […]
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This year, I was happy not just to attend the ESRI Developer Summit, but I also had the privilege of talking about the ESRI REST Diagnostics tools in a user presentation. Since I attended with some other members of my team, I focused on attending most of the sessions on JavaScript and web development. It was a lot
When it comes to presenting quick code samples on the web, there are three competitors that come to my mind: JSFiddle, JSBin, and CodePen. All three sites allow you to add HTML, JSFiddle has been around a long time, and is great for testing out code snippets and parts. JSBin, which bills itself as “Collaborative
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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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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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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