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

By : Eric Pimpler, Mark Lewin
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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

Summary


This chapter has introduced you to the various capabilities afforded by accessing a network service from within your application. You learned how to use the RouteTask to find directions from one point to one or more others. You saw how the Directions widget could make that much easier to implement and provide your users with a great interface. Then you saw how you could use the ClosestFacilityTask to find the closest points of interest (facilities) from one or more origin points (incidents), or use the ServiceAreaTask to calculate drive times within a specified time period, that might help you site a depot or other facility where response times are important.

All the tasks we have seen in this and previous chapters are great, but their capabilities are limited to those implemented by Esri, and sometimes that won't cut it. In the next chapter, you will learn how to work with geoprocessing tasks, which you can build yourself, publish as a service, and then consume within your web mapping...