November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
7h 51m
English
Overview
ArcGIS Web Development is an example-rich tutorial designed to teach developers to use the ArcGIS JavaScript API to build custom GIS web applications.
About the Technology
Now you can unshackle your GIS application from a workstation! Using the ArcGIS JavaScript API, developers can build mobile and web-based maps and applications driven by ArcGIS data and functionality. Experienced ArcGIS developers will find that the familiar development environment provides a smooth transition to the web. Web developers new to GIS will be pleased by how easily they can apply their existing skills to GIS applications.
About the Book
ArcGIS Web Development is an example-rich guide that teaches you to use the ArcGIS JavaScript API to build custom GIS web applications. The book begins with easy-to-follow examples that introduce readers to the ArcGIS JavaScript API and show how you can apply simple customizations. As the book progresses, you'll explore a full-scale, web-mapping application. By the end you will be able to build web apps that have features you'd ordinarily expect to find only in dedicated GIS applications.
What's Inside
- Build web-based GIS applications
- Customize the ArcGIS Javascript API tools
- Bring ArcGIS data to the web
- Create secure logins for mobile app users
About the Reader
Written for web developers familiar with JavaScript and basic GIS concepts. Experience with ArcGIS is helpful, but not necessary.
About the Author
Rene Rubalcava is the cofounder of SmartGeoTech, Inc., a GIS development company specializing in Esri technologies.
Quotes
The most succinct tutorial for using the ArcGIS JavaScript API.
- Shaun Langley, Urban GIS
Everything you need to build location and mapping web applications with ArcGIS.
- Dennis Sellinger, Géotech, France
Anyone getting started with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript should pick up this book.
- Brian Arnold, Bazaarvoice, Inc.
The author is thorough, and the pace is just right.
- Jacqueline Wilson, Avon Grove Charter School
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