Getting to Know Web GIS

Product Description The new second edition of Getting to Know Web GIS features detailed, step-by-step exercises that teach readers how to share resources online and build web GIS applications easily and quickly. This workbook includes the latest upgrades and advances, such as smart mapping, AppStudio, ArcGIS Pro and scene services, and expands the use of ArcGIS Online, Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS for Server, Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS, and ArcGIS API for JavaScript. You do not have to be a developer to build web apps with little or no programming. Instead of focusing on individual products, this book teaches web GIS technologies as a holistic platform. In each chapter, students complete an application project using multiple products from the browser/client side to the server side. Data for completing the exercises is available for download. Featuring detailed, step-by-step exercises, Getting to Know Web GIS, Second Edition, teaches readers how to share resources online and build web GIS applications easily and quickly.The workbook covers the Esri suite of web GIS technologies, including ArcGIS Online, Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS for Server, web app templates, Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS, ArcGIS API for JavaScript, the Collector for ArcGIS mobile app, mobile SDKs, and 3D web scenes. This second edition includes the latest upgrades and advances, such as smart mapping, AppStudio, ArcGIS Pro and Scene services. Unlike books that focus on individual products, this book teaches web GIS technologies as a holistic platform. In each chapter, students complete an application project using multiple products from the browser/client side to the server side. Data for completing the exercises is available for download. From the Author A note for chapter 1:       Be sure to do step 4 on page 24 (Thisstep sets the locations layer to be visible from World scale to Room scale.This setting is required by the Map Tour template).        If you don't set thevisibility range as instructed, the Map Tour app you create later in section1.4 will be blank. A correction in chapter 2, step 15 on page 83:        The URL ( arcg.is/2xWlvaj) in this step doesn't work for certain situations. Please use bit.ly/2ojzt3u instead. This URL always works. From the Back Cover PENDING 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 lead author of Web GIS: Principles and Applications (Esri Press, 2010).