Getting to Know Web GIS

by Pinde Fu

Overview

Getting to Know Web GIS, third edition, pairs fundamental principles with step-by-step exercises to teach readers how to share resources online and build Web GIS apps easily and quickly. Start now building Web apps without a single line of programming, and then move on to developing more advanced skills using a variety of Web GIS technology.

Instead of focusing on individual products, this book teaches Web GIS technologies as a holistic platform. In each chapter, readers complete an application project using multiple products from the browser/client side to the server side. This edition includes new chapters and sections on big data analysis, image services, raster analysis, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), Arcade, vector tiling, Survey123, ArcGIS API for Python, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), Operations Dashboard, and portal collaboration.

A practical manual for classroom lab and on-the-job training, Getting to Know Web GIS includes downloadable teaching slides and exercise data.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589487284
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	07/12/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	38 MB
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About the Author

Pinde Fu leads the ArcGIS Platform Engineering team at Esri Professional Services and teaches at universities including Harvard University Extension School. His specialties include web and mobile GIS technologies and applications in various industries. Several of his projects have won special achievement awards. Fu is the author of Getting to Know Web GIS (Esri Press, 2022) and lead author of Web GIS: Principles and Applications (Esri Press, 2010).

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

System requirements xiii

Chapter 1 Start With the Cloud: Build Web Apps Using ArcGIS Online 1

1.1 Create an ArcGIS Online account 9

1.2 Prepare your data 13

1.3 Create a web map 16

1.4 Create a web app using a template 19

1.5 Configure your web app 24

1.6 Share your web app 33

Chapter 2 More On ArcGIS Online layers, maps, and apps 39

2.1 Map CSV data using geocoding 43

2.2 Edit data in the map viewer 47

2.3 Change layer symbols 50

2.4 Configure layer pop-up windows 54

2.5 Add images and charts to pop-up windows 58

2.6 Add a layer by search 63

2.7 Create and configure your web app 66

Chapter 3 Map services and time animation 77

3.1 Connect to your GIS server 84

3.2 Author your map document 87

3.3 Enable time on your map layers 93

3.4 Publish your map as a service 96

3.5 Explore your service using Services Directory 102

3.6 Add a map service to a web map and configure time 107

3.7 Build a time animation web app 111

Chapter 4 Cached map services and comparison web apps 121

4.1 Configure a data store 129

4.2 Author a map for tiling 132

4.3 Publish a tiled map service 135

4.4 Check the tiles and test your service 142

4.5 Create a side-by-side comparison web app 145

4.6 Administer your web services 152

Chapter 5 Feature services and volunteered geographic information 159

5.1 Create an ArcGIS Online for Organizations publisher account 164

5.2 Prepare your data 167

5.3 Publish a hosted feature service 168

5.4 Define feature templates 172

5.5 Create a web map and define editable fields 180

5.6 Create a web app for VGI collection 181

Chapter 6 Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS 193

6.1 Access Web AppBuilder 198

6.2 Create a basic web app 199

6.3 Configure additional widgets 207

6.4 Deploy your application 220

Chapter 7 Spatial analytics online and geoprocessing services 225

7.1 Design a geoprocessing model 233

7.2 Run the model 240

7.3 Publish the results as a geoprocessing service 244

7.4 Explore your geoprocessing service in the Services Directory 249

7.5 Use your GP service in Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS 253

Chapter 8 Getting started with ArcGIS API for JavaScript 263

8.1 Build your first app 272

8.2 Adapt a sample 273

8.3 Deploy your app to your web server 281

8.4 Debug JavaScript, monitor HTTP traffic, and inspect elements 284

8.5 Add dijits to your web app 293

8.6 Select features from a feature layer 301

Chapter 9 Mobile GIS 313

9.1 Prepare your web map (optional) 319

9.2 Collect points using Collector for ArcGIS 320

9.3 Stream lines and polygons using Collector 328

9.4 Explore JavaScript API mobile samples 334

9.5 Install the ArcGIS for Android Eclipse plug-in 336

9.6 Getting started with ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android 339

9.7 Adapt a Runtime Android SDK sample 346

Chapter 10 3D web apps 355

10.1 Build essential skills 358

10.2 Explore basic polygonal modeling 358

10.3 Publish web scenes 358

Appendix A Image credits 361

Appendix B Data credits 375

Appendix C Server data credits 377

Editorial Reviews

I thought Web GIS was difficult to teach, but your book really made Web GIS easy to teach and fun to learn. I have just taught this course once. My students liked this course, much better than the other courses that I have taught for years.”

Professor Bo Xu of CSUSB