Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript

Improve your knowledge and career prospects in web or mobile application development with this step-by-step practical guide to ArcGIS Server. Gives a good grounding in everything from creating maps to network analysis.

Key Features

Develop ArcGIS Server applications with JavaScript, both for traditional web browsers as well as the mobile platform

Acquire in-demand GIS skills sought by many employers

Step-by-step instructions, examples, and hands-on practice designed to help you learn the key features and design considerations for building custom ArcGIS Server applications

Book Description

An easy to follow tutorial, this book uses a step-by-step approach with exercises designed to give you hands-on experience with this technology. If you are a web or mobile application developer, who wants to create GIS applications in your respective platform, this book is ideal for you. You will need Java Script programming experience to get the most out of this book. Although designed as an introductory to intermediate level book, it will also be useful for more advanced developers who are new to the topic of developing applications with ArcGIS Server.

What you will learn

Create maps on a web page and add dynamic and tiled layers

Add graphics to maps

Use feature layers to render features in the browser

Incorporate widgets and toolbars that provide specific functionality to your application

Perform spatial and attribute queries

Access geoprocessing tasks including models

Geocode and reverse geocode addresses

Develop mobile GIS applications

Conduct network analysis

Eric Pimpler is the founder and owner of GeoSpatial Training Services (geospatialtraining.com) and has over 20 years of experience in implementing and teaching GIS solutions using Esri, Google Earth/Maps, and open source technology. Currently, he focuses on ArcGIS scripting with Python and the development of custom ArcGIS Server web and mobile applications using JavaScript. He is the author of Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook. Eric has a bachelor's degree in Geography from Texas A&M University and a master's degree in Applied Geography with a concentration in GIS from Texas State University.