Tag Archives: user experience
Making Your Pop-up Pop!
Want to make a beautiful pop-up to match your map or website? With a little elbow grease, CSS, and a keen eye for design, it’s easy. Here’s how you can skin the ArcGIS API for JavaScript pop-up widget. The pop-up … Continue reading
The Power of ArcGIS Through Business Analyst Online
You might have noticed the new Select tool in the map tool palette. What in the world is this? How is it going to be useful to me? What else can I do after bringing in a web map from ArcGIS Online? Continue reading to find out more…
As discussed in a previous blog post, you can bring in the maps created in ArcGIS Online into Business Analyst Online and make the maps more meaningful. With the help of this new Select tool, you can make it even more powerful. Here’s how… Continue reading
ArcGIS Online Maps Through Community Analyst – The Good Stuff
You might have noticed the new Select tool in the map tool palette. What in the world is this? How is it going to be useful to me? What else can I do after bringing in a web map from ArcGIS Online? Continue reading to find out more…
As discussed in a previous blog post, you can bring in the maps created in ArcGIS Online into Community Analyst and make the maps more meaningful. With the help of this new Select tool, you can make it even more powerful. Here’s how… Continue reading
Sneak Peek: ArcGIS Online (ArcGIS.com) Maps in Community Analyst
by Sooria Jeyaraman
I discussed accessing and adding of ArcGIS online maps in Community Analyst in my previous blog. This was very useful in adding maps from ArcGIS Online and for further analysis in Community Analyst. As always, we want to take it a step further and make it even more useful. How do we do it? Continue reading
Place and Road Labels above Color Coded Maps
By Sooria Jeyaraman
How many times you have created a color-coded map from our list of close to 6000 variables (yes, I said 6000) and turned it completely opaque to see the colors come to life? There is one small problem with that. Once you set the transparency to 0% then you will not be able to see the roads or places below these colors. How many times have you wondered that it’ll be great if you have a way to look at these without losing your beautiful colors? If you are, you are not alone. Some of you brought this issue to our attention so, as usual, we decided to do something about it.
Business Search in Community Analyst
by Sooria Jeyaraman
Community Analyst provides a variety of capabilities to search for businesses, establishments or institutions. You can search for any business type within the application, apply it on the map and use it for further analysis. The two different types of business search mechanisms within Community Analyst are Infogroup and Bing business search. Both search types are available and allow you to choose whichever meets your needs best.
Click on the Explore Community tab and, once the tab opens, you’ll see a search box to the far right in the sub menu. Clicking on the arrow will reveal the the search options. Continue reading
ArcGIS.com Maps in Community Analyst
by Sooria Jeyaraman
Hello Community Analyst users, I am the user experience architect for Community Analyst. This is an exciting product and we’re very excited to have you on board. You will be hearing from me a lot on user interface (UI) specifics, general usability and user experience of the application.
As you all know in our latest beta release of Community Analyst we have added more basemaps to the product, this was covered in a previous blogpost. Another exciting addition to the basemaps is the integration of maps from ArcGIS.com. I would like to take a moment and explain in detail how to use this feature in Community Analyst. Continue reading
Sneak Peek: Browsing ArcGIS.com Maps in Business Analyst Online
by Sooria Jeyaraman
As you all know in our latest release we’ve added the capability to integrate ArcGIS.com maps in Business Analyst Online. Now we are stepping up the game and making it much easier to load. You can load the ArcGIS.com maps with a single click. How is that done you may ask? Continue reading
Infogroup Business Search in Business Analyst Online
By Sooria Jeyaraman
In the recent release of Business Analyst Online, we have added another interesting functionality for your search capabilities. The ability to search using Bing has been well received and is widely used. To make the search a bit more flexible, we’ve added the new Infogroup Search to Business Analyst Online. Both of these search types are available and you can choose whichever meets your needs best. Continue reading
ArcGIS.com maps in Business Analyst Online
by Sooria Jeyaraman
As you all know in our latest release, we have added more basemaps to the product, which I covered in my previous blogpost. One more exciting addition to the basemaps is the integration of maps from ArcGIS.com. Continue reading
