Tag Archives: web map
Using Stamen and MapBox tilesets as basemaps in ArcGIS.com
In his recent blog entry Adding tile layers to your web map, Chris Whitmore explained how the March 2013 enhancement to ArcGIS Online supported the addition of a range of new file types to web maps. Chris described the approach of adding tile layers to web maps which allows you to use web-accessible map tiles from a server directly using a URL request from the browser. In this blog entry I show you how this approach can be used to integrate Stamen and MapBox tilesets in your ArcGIS Online web maps.
Adding tile layers to your web map
With the March 2013 ArcGIS Online update, map authors can now add GeoRSS, OGC WMTS, and tile layers to their web maps. Here’s how you add tile layers using the ArcGIS.com map viewer.
Santa Clara Valley Water District Alert Web Map
by Nahm Lee, Santa Clara Valley Water District The Santa Clara Valley Water District Alert web map was designed using the ESRI javascript API. Santa Clara Valley Water District provides real time rainfall, stream flow/stage and reservoir storage/elevation data for Santa Clara … Continue reading
Creating an interactive photo map with ArcGIS Online
Have you ever wanted to put your vacation photographs on a map and share them with friends and family? You can use ArcGIS Online to display the pictures on a web map so others can interact with the places you … Continue reading
Using NetBeans with the ArcGIS Runtime Java API
NetBeans is another great development environment that allows programmers to quickly and easily build great desktop, mobile and web applications with Java. NetBeans also supports mobile and Web development with Java, C++, and many different scripting languages. The NetBeans IDE is free, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.
Because the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Java provides a pure Java API and development experience, it plugs in nicely with IDEs such as NetBeans, even though the ArcGIS Runtime SDK does not ship with NetBeans modules. Continue reading
Automated Data Acquisition for Integrating Multiple Datasets Using GIS Applications
by Alison Wood, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
As GIS users, we often have to collect data from many sources and compile them into a single map. For just a few sources and a single map, this might be feasible. But what if you have to make a new map with updated data every day? Or every hour? Automation can save you the enormous time it would take to do that by hand, and also help to avoid the errors that can happen in repetitive tasks done by hand. In this blog entry, I’ll describe an example of automating a process to retrieve data, execute file format conversions, and update an online map; I’ll also talk a little bit about some of the tools and strategies I used that will be useful for someone else automating a similar process.
Well count aggregation web map
By Mark Smithgall, Esri Cartographer
This well count aggregation web map shows how a complex data source, such as gas wells in a producing field, can be aggregated and portrayed in an easy-to-understand manner. This was designed as an ArcGIS Online web map to show the aggregation number as a proportional symbol of wells per administrative area. In this case, three levels of aggregation were used based on the most logical administrative areas: parishes, Public Land Survey System (PLSS) townships, and PLSS sections. Continue reading
Creating a time aware web map for the torch relay event
By Kenneth Field, Esri Research Cartographer
In the lead up to London’s big sporting event in July 2012, the symbolic torch will travel the length and breadth of the United Kingdom. The route has been designed to maximize the opportunity for the UK population to view the torch as it makes its way, across 70 days, stopping at over 1000 locations where bearers will parade the torch locally. The torch relay event web map provides a time aware window on the event for locals to follow and for more distant observers to explore.
Creating a multimedia trail web map
By Kenneth Field, Esri Research Cartographer
Tourist trail maps engage people new to an area and guide them to sights of importance or interest, often using a particular theme. The Esri story maps team recently published a trail map of New York City’s High Line and also a short walking tour around Esri’s Redlands campus. Both examples illustrate the way in which web maps allow you to combine basemaps, route information, point of interest markers and multimedia (e.g. photographs) to tell a rich visual story. Web maps like these can be used either as a virtual tour to give a narrative without actually visiting the area, or as a navigation aid as users follow the trail in reality using a hand-held device. In this blog entry, we’ll look at how you can make a walking trail web map. Continue reading
An intelligent map checklist
When you create an intelligent web map or map service, you are sharing something that you hope will stand on its own and be useful to others. How can you deliver a map that is both attractive and useful for … Continue reading
