Building Web Maps Using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript

GIS professionals are increasingly being asked to create high-performing, modern-looking Web maps to share their authoritative GIS content. This course teaches how to create Web maps that are attractive, fast, and easy to use by their intended audience. In course exercises, you build a lightweight, focused Web map that utilizes internal and external ArcGIS Server Web services. You also learn how to access and configure ESRI sample viewers for rapid Web application development.

This course is designed for GIS analysts and others who want to create attractive, high-performing Web mapping applications to extend the use of GIS data to non-GIS departments within an organization or to the general public via the Internet. No Web development experience is required.

After completing this course you will be able to

• Design a map for use in a mashup.
• Apply techniques to improve the performance of a Web mapping application.
• Know when to use cached map services and when to use dynamic map services.
• Select the appropriate caching parameters for an application.
• Design a Web service for efficient querying.
• Customize a Web mapping application using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.
• Utilize ESRI sample viewers and templates to quickly configure a Web mapping application.

• Designing effective Web applications: Design considerations; Examples of effective Web maps; Overview of application components; Recommended steps for designing a Web application.
• Options for creating a custom Web application: Understanding Web development patterns; Web ADF development; Overview of the ArcGIS APIs; Creating interactive Web pages with JavaScript.
• Strategies for authoring basemaps: Key design considerations; Types of basemaps; Caching considerations; Basemap design checklist.
• Consuming map services in a Web application: ArcGIS Server REST API; Adding a map to a Web application; Dynamic map service layers; Cached map service layers; Adding image service layers.
• Strategies for authoring operational layers: Types of operational layers; Using cached maps as operational layers; Using dynamic maps as operational layers; Performance considerations; Understanding the graphics layer.
• Implemeting queries: The Query task; Outputting query results; Using graphics, the InfoWindow, charts, and the Dojo grid; Improving query performance; Using a proxy page with JavaScript.
• Implementing tasks and tools: Common tasks in the ArcGIS APIs; Geocoding services; Geometry and locator services; Geoprocessing services.
• Configuring sample viewers: Sample viewers for the ArcGIS APIs; Configuring the Sample JavaScript Viewer; Adding basemaps, operational layers, and tools to a sample viewer; the widget design model.

Completion of ArcGIS Desktop II: Tools and Functionality or Learning ArcGIS Desktop and Introduction to ArcGIS Server or equivalent knowledge is required.

This course is designed to work with the following software:

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