Posts Tagged ‘widgets’
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
I’ve mentioned many times before in this blog that we are big fans of the new cloud based approach to GIS (WebGIS). As Bill Meehan at Esri describes, connecting desktop, Web and mobile apps via your central GIS cloud based hub provides access, awareness and analysis. Moving from server to platform has many advantages. Its transforming GIS.
But today, the reality is that we live in a world of mixed technologies. Esri users have one or a combination of ArcGIS Server, Online, Portal. Web applications tend to be tied to these respective solutions. At WebMapSolutions we have been giving this considerable thought.
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Tags: arcgis, flexible, location, mobile, mobile GIS, online, portal, server, where, widgets
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
I have always been a big fan of flexible GIS applications which are easy to extend. Remember the very popular Flex Viewer for ArcGIS? Though Flex has largely gone away, the widget based approach to configuring and building GIS applications is still here. In fact we feel for many, widget based GIS apps should be leveraged across the organization. GIS applications built for one purpose, and big bloated web applications loaded up with tools are things of the past. I used the analogy of a cruise ship versus a speedboat in a past blog post.
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Tags: arcgis, configurable, flexible, framework, webapp builder, widgets
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
Its funny how we all have those ‘light bulb’ moments from time to time. I was in conversation, by email, with a GIS colleague last week. He wrote:
“I support Esri’s point on COTS, especially once you start deploying stuff cross-platform, our vertical has far too much custom development & legacy….”
In this post I thought it worth discussing in more depth my colleagues statement above. To consider commercial-off-the-shelf-software or COTS, in relation to Web based GIS applications which leverage widgets.
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Tags: arcgis, COTS, disconnected, editing, javascript, offline, widgets
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
If you are GIS asset management solution provider, small or large, you need to ask yourself two questions:
1) Do we have a mobile solution which works on all devices (PC, laptop, smartphone, tablet) and platforms (Apple, Android, Windows)?
2) Are your field products offline enabled?
If you answer is no to either or both questions … you need to act fast!
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Tags: asset management arcgis, GIS, javascript, offline, widgets
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Sunday, November 30th, 2014
The New Future of ArcGIS Web Applications is all about Javascript
Javascript is an open standard scripting language. With a truly global developer base, it is today arguably the most popular language on the planet. In combination with HTML5 advanced functionality is now possibe. The largest Esri software team is the Javascript team. Some of the ArcGIS Javascript API advances this team are about to roll out, including 3D, will make heads spin.
Javascript Disconnected Functionality and more
It is now possible to do things in a browser, using Javascript, we could only have dreamed about just a few years ago. One of our companies areas of focus has been disconnected ArcGIS.
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Tags: arcgis, ArcGIS web app builder, disconnected, javascript, mobile, PhoneGap, templates, widgets
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