August 2009 - Posts

• Site Suitability for Microsoft Surface

  During the 2009 ESRI International User Conference , Jack Dangermond introduced his vision of geographic design or “ geodesign ”.  Click here to view Jack’s presentation of his geodesign vision.  To assist Jack’s presentation, a few demonstrations Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:02 PM by apl2009 | 1 Comments Filed under: ESRI, ArcGIS API for WPF, Microsoft Surface, Geodesign

• Point Data, ArcGIS Server Base Maps and KISS

  One of the most common requests for a web mapping application is to simply display points on a map. I won’t go on and on about the general concept as we’ve all probably seen countless examples of these maps. The basic idea is point data are represented Read More... Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 4:15 PM by apl2009 | 0 Comments Filed under: ESRI, ArcGIS API for Javascript, point data, KISS

• No Download Required: View Data.gov Shapefiles Directly In Your Browser

  We recently submitted the Shapefile Viewer application to the Apps for America 2: The DATA.gov Challenge contest, a project of the Sunlight Foundation . We believe DATA.gov is a great resource of publicly available government data. With the recent addition Read More... Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 11:33 AM by apl2009 | 0 Comments Filed under: ESRI, ArcGIS API for Javascript, Sunlight Foundation, shapefile, Data.gov, geoprocessing, catalog, geodata.gov, Apps for America 2

• Custom Objects in dojo.ItemFileReadStore: Using a Type Map

  The GeoChalkboard Blog recently published a post about using the dojo.ItemFileReadStore (IFRS). That post does a good job of introducing and discussing basic usage of the ItemFileReadStore, but it leaves out one important aspect, the Type Map . Natively, Read More... Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:34 AM by apl2009 | 1 Comments Filed under: ArcGIS API for Javascript, Dojo, ItemFileReadStore, Javascript