Creating Effective Web Applications Using ArcGIS Server

Overview

This course teaches basic design principles for creating Web mapping applications that are attractive, fast, and easy to use by their intended audience. In course exercises, you will work with the lightweight ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs to create a focused application that utilizes internal and external ArcGIS Server Web services. Students may choose to complete some course exercises using the ArcGIS API for Flex, the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, or the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF.

Audience

GIS analysts and others who want to create 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.

Language

Depending on the students attending the course, the teacher could present it in French or English. All slides and course materials are in English.

Goals

After completing this course you will be able to

• Choose an application development environment that meets your needs.
• Author high-performing basemap and operational layers for a map service.
• Design an application for efficient querying and editing.
• Build an application that includes geoprocessing functionality.
• Configure ESRI templates and out-of-the-box viewers to quickly build a Web application.

Topics covered

Designing effective Web applications

• Characteristics of effective Web maps
• Common implementation patterns
• Understanding basemap and operational layers
• Steps for designing a Web application

Choosing a customization path

• Web development patterns
• Web APIs
• Web map customization options

Authoring basemaps

• Types of basemaps
• Cached map services and performance considerations
• Using labels vs. annotation
• Recommendations for designing basemap layers

Consuming map services in a Web application

• REST and client-side APIs
• Adding maps and map services to a Web application
• Creating custom layers

Authoring operational layers

• Types of operational layers
• Cached map services and dynamic map services
• Analyzing map performance
• Graphics layers and feature layers
• Design recommendations for operational layers

Interrogating map data

• Identify, Find, and Query tasks
• Best practices for querying data
• Using graphics layers and feature layers
• Displaying results

Creating Web editing applications

• Editing over the Web vs. on the desktop
• Feature templates
• Feature Server
• Geometry services
• Implementing editing using the default editor and custom workflows

GIS analysis on the Web

• Geocoding, geometry, and geoprocessing services
• Displaying output
• Designing GIS analysis tasks

Prerequisites and recommendations

ArcGIS Desktop - Level II: Tools and Functionality and Introduction à ArcGIS Server or equivalent knowledge.

Length

2 days
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