Hello, Writing is a slow, painful process for me. Pulling together coherent thoughts, getting approval of all the editors in my mind, and chasing down words that my brain lets loose in the back yard gets tiring. And yet, under normal circumstances, I enjoy it. The past few months have not been normal circumstances. In […]
Hello. I’m sure you’re wondering where I’ve been lately. Well, I’ve been working on a special project that I can finally talk about. It’s my new book, Mastering ArcGIS Server Development with JavaScript. I know, it’s a long title, but it will help you do what it says. It dives into the ArcGIS JavaScript API,
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Anyone who has developed against ArcGIS Server web services has probably encountered the limit on query results returned. Whether it’s 1000 features, or maybe 2000 with the new versions, it’s never enough for the kind of data you have to return. Contrary to what he or she believes, the typical map user can’t fathom having
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Since a lot of my readers are either at the ESRI UC, or at work covering for their coworkers who are there, I thought I’d take some time this week to talk about what’s going on now, and what will be coming up in the days ahead. Current State Besides my daily work at Bruce
I was looking up something in the ArcGIS JavaScript API documentation for another blog post, when I noticed that the API moved up from version 3.13 to 3.14. Yep, the JSAPI became version Pi today. I picked through the What’s New page to see the changes. They advertised a lot of things that I may
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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
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
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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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