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 fast, attractive, and easy to use by their intended audience. In course exercises, you will build a lightweight, focused Web map that utilizes internal and external ArcGIS Server Web services. You will also learn how to access and configure ESRI sample viewers for rapid Web application development.

GIS analysts and others who want to create rich Web mapping applications to extend the use of GIS content throughout an organization or to the public via the Internet.

After completing this course you will be able to

• Design a map for use in a mashup.
• Improve the performance of a Web mapping application.
• Know when to use cached map services versus 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 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

• Web development patterns
• Web ADF development
• Overview of the ArcGIS APIs
• Creating interactive Web pages with JavaScript

Strategies for authoring basemaps

• Design considerations
• Basemap types
• Caching considerations
• Basemap design checklist

Consuming map services in a Web application

• ArcGIS Server REST API
• Adding a map to a Web application
• Dynamic and 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
• Graphics layer

Implementing queries

• 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
• 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. No Web development experience is required.

This course is designed to work with the following software:

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