This article is the fourth in a five part series covering the ArcGIS JavaScript API and the ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for the Google Maps API. It was previously published at GeoChalkboard in the form of a six-part article, and has been reproduced here with permission. The third part, Using Events, was published yesterday. The final article in this series will be published tomorrow.

Today I will continue my series of posts on the new ArcGIS Server JavaScript API with an article that describes how you can integrate the Google Maps API geocoder with ArcGIS Server. In this article I am going to use the Portland_ESRI_Landbase_AGO map service from ESRI’s Sample Server 1 ArcGIS Server instance as a base layer, and we’ll show how you can geocode an address using the Google Maps API. This address will then be represented as a point graphic created from the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API. You could certainly use an ESRI locator service to do the geocoding, but it’s a fun exercise and useful if you don’t have access to a geocoding service. This is a very simple example with a hard-coded address meant only to show the potential for integration.

This article is the second in a five part series covering the ArcGIS JavaScript API and the ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for the Google Maps API. It was previously published at GeoChalkboard in the form of a six-part article, and has been reproduced here with permission. The first part, Getting Started was published yesterday. The remaining articles in this series will be published this week.

Continuing with our series on the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API, today we will cover various ways that you can work with the map extent. If you don’t include extent information when an instance of the map is created in your code, the default or initial extent will be the extent of the map as it was last saved in the map document (.mxd). For example, the code snippet below does not include any extent information in the constructor for the map. This would result in a default extent being applied which was the extent of the map when it was last saved in the map document.

Geotagging is becoming increasingly widespread. All kinds of internet content (pictures, videos, blogs, Wikipedia articles etc.) are not only being indexed, but they are also tagged with geographical metadata. The increasing use of this information is resulting in substantial changes in the field of internet search.

Directories, travel sites and real estate portals are starting to present their points of interests (POIs) on maps. All of them have to face several challenges: constantly changing data, keeping high performance, and providing a user-friendly presentation.

The display of geo-points on a map is not difficult due to the services of various map providers. But displaying more than 1,000 POIs can cause problems as website performance significantly declines and geo-points become indistinct clouds.