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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

About the Reviewers

Ken Doman is a senior frontend engineer at GEO Jobe, a geographic information systems consultant company and ESRI business partner that helps public sector organizations and private sector businesses get the most out of geospatial solutions. Ken has worked for the municipal government and in the private sector. He has experienced many facets of GIS technology, from field data collection to mapping and data analysis to creating and deploying web mapping applications and solutions.

Ken is the author of Mastering ArcGIS Server Development with JavaScript. He has also reviewed several books for Packt Publishing, including Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript and Spatial Analysis with ArcGIS by Eric Pimpler, ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook by Daniela Christiana Docan, and ArcPy and ArcGIS by Silas Toms.

I’d first like to thank my wife, Luann, who puts up with my late nights reviewing books like this. I’d like to thank my current employer,

GEO Jobe

GIS Consulting, as well as past employers like Bruce Harris and Associates, City of Plantation,

FL

and City of Jacksonville, TX for believing in me and letting me learn so much on the job. Finally, I’d like to thank my creator for putting me where I need to be.

Ayodele Adeyemo is a geogeek with over four years experience, and is passionate about leveraging data and technology to provide solutions to human, social, and technological problems. He currently works with eHealth Africa in Nigeria with the Global Health and Informatics department to provide user data and technology to solve health issues across communities in Africa. He has experience in building and mentoring geospatial solutions as well as consulting for organizations on how to deploy sustainable geospatial solutions to support their agencies and projects.

Ayodele has worked as GIS Specialist at eHealth Africa and Founder and Latitudes Tech Limited. He has worked on the book ArcPy and ArcGIS: Automating ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS Online with Python.

I'd like to thank my manager, Dami Sonoiki; my supervisor, Samuel Aiyeoribe; and my colleagues Samuel Okoroafor and Seun Egbinola.