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Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript ??? Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Eric Pimpler, Mark Lewin
Book Image

Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript ??? Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Eric Pimpler, Mark Lewin

Overview of this book

The ArcGIS API for JavaScript enables you to quickly build web and mobile mapping applications that include sophisticated GIS capabilities, yet are easy and intuitive for the user. Aimed at both new and experienced web developers, this practical guide gives you everything you need to get started with the API. After a brief introduction to HTML/CSS/JavaScript, you'll embed maps in a web page, add the tiled, dynamic, and streaming data layers that your users will interact with, and mark up the map with graphics. You will learn how to quickly incorporate a broad range of useful user interface elements and GIS functionality to your application with minimal effort using prebuilt widgets. As the book progresses, you will discover and use the task framework to query layers with spatial and attribute criteria, search for and identify features on the map, geocode addresses, perform network analysis and routing, and add custom geoprocessing operations. Along the way, we cover exciting new features such as the client-side geometry engine, learn how to integrate content from ArcGIS.com, and use your new skills to build mobile web mapping applications. We conclude with a look at version 4 of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript (which is being developed in parallel with version 3.x) and what it means for you as a developer.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

The Geometry Service


Unlike all of the services we have seen so far, the Geometry Service is not dependent on some underlying resource. That is to say, it is not something that you must first create in ArcGIS Pro and then publish to ArcGIS Server.

You may say, and you would be correct, that you haven't had to do that for any of the services we have been using in this book. However, the point is that someone, somewhere, has done so. The basemaps you have been consuming in the web applications you have created so far all started off as a map document somewhere, and have been made available to you as the result of someone publishing that document to a publicly available ArcGIS Server instance. The geoprocessing services you have accessed were similarly conceived in Model Builder, or as a Python script.

This is not the case with the Geometry Service. To create a Geometry Service, all you have to do is get your ArcGIS Server administrator to enable it and you are good to go!

Once you have a running...