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Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:00 PM

Achieving smooth transitions with adjacent services

In your ArcGIS Server application you might have reason to work with adjacent map and image services. This is most often occurs when you want to display your authoritative data for a small area while using a public service (ArcGIS Online, Bing Maps, or
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:38 PM

Designing a map to overlay ArcGIS Online in a Web application

In November 2006, ESRI announced the public beta release of ArcGIS Online, a set of base map and reference services available for ArcGIS users. These services include imagery, street maps, elevation data, and more. For ArcGIS Desktop users, overlaying
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Friday, July 20, 2007 12:10 PM

How to build a cache with the same tile sizes and scales as ArcGIS Online

When building a map cache that will overlay ArcGIS Online in a .NET Web mapping application, you need to match the tile sizes and tiling origin to that used by ArcGIS Online. You also should make an effort to match as many scale levels as practical with
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Monday, July 02, 2007 4:28 PM

Viewing cached map services (such as ArcGIS Online) in ArcMap

ArcMap allows you to view cached map services at any scale and projection. When you zoom in to a cached map service, ArcMap generally fetches the tile from the next largest scale, then resamples it to fit the view. This works great for layers like satellite
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 3:30 PM

Creating a 3D globe cache from a 2D map cache

One purpose of this blog is to share some of the things we’ve learned about our software by using it ourselves. The ArcGIS Online project uses the ArcGIS Server map and globe caching technology. In this post, we share a technique we’ve developed to create
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