—Marianne Cardwell, Woolpert
The ArcGIS JavaScript API released with ArcGIS 9.3 opened up a whole new set of Web development possibilities, but it comes with two major drawbacks: the lack of reliable, highquality printing and the lack of a dynamically created legend including legend swatches. To solve these limitations, the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, modified its existing print Web service designed for use with the Web ADF so that it could be used with Web sites developed using the ArcGIS JavaScript API. The result is a high-quality PDF map including a legend, north arrow, scale bar, and text elements. Additionally, the city has created a legend service that provides the legend swatches necessary to create a legend to be displayed on a Web site. This service can be used with any Web site using an Esri map service. This presentation will go over the two services and explain how they were created, focusing on the advantage of a service-oriented architecture.
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