My organization wants to create a few maps that will be interactive and viewable via phones (android, iphones,etc) and ipads.  We already have a solution using Geocortex (Silverlight) for browser which cannot display on most devices.  I've been looking into HTML5, Javascript and ArcGIS Online.  What I need is something that displays nicely for mobile use and that is easy to set up. Looking at Javascript is slightly intimidating to me and ArcGIS Online maps don't display well in the phone's browser.  I do not come from a Comp Sci or development background so if there's already an existing interface that makes it easily to display for mobile I'd prefer that rather than messing with code. The map would contain point features with hopefully a pop-up containing a picture and a short description of the property.   I'm pretty computer savvy but I'd like this to be as painless as possible.  Are there any other interfaces that exist that make this easier?  The mobile map will be only for viewing purposing, no editing or capture.  I'm open to looking at other platforms outside of ArcGIS as well.  As an added bonus (but not mandatory), I've been looking into Story Maps and plan on using one in the future, specifically the Short List. However, I don't see this working out for a mobile device as its very picture heavy and would crowd the display. If anyone has any other alternative ideas I'm open to them!  I've been looking at Leaflet and Mapbox as a possible solution for mobile use - there is plenty of documentation - but still a lot of code!  For now we've gained access to HTML5 viewer for geocortex and will be using it for our mobile sites. If there are any other alternatives I haven't already listed above - that are about on-par with ArcGIS Online for ease of use for non-programmers, I would be interested to hear about them.
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We are building a spatial application targeted to laypeople which will involve viewing and editing vector geodata (currently just points, but linestrings and polygons in the future) with a raster underlay. We'll deploy both web and mobile (iPhone now, Android and perhaps others later) versions. The server is a custom app we are writing, and there are no ESRI products on the server side.  My question, therefore, is: How do we choose which client-side mapping toolkit to use? I'm aware of the following options, are there others?   Google Maps API or similar (Yahoo, MapQuest, etc.) OpenLayers (does it work on mobile browsers?) ESRI's web/mobile APIs   We are particularly interested in the pros/cons of the ESRI APIs under this scenario. Our company does have some kind of relationship with ESRI, though I know nothing about the details (and our group currently has no involvement with ESRI or ESRI products).
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How do I convert MapInfo TAB and/or MIF files to SHP using only free tools or ArcGIS itself?   I've not had much luck trying to do this in the past and I don't want to have to shell out for the ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension which seems to be the 'official' way to go about this.
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I need to import Google Maps into ArcGIS for Desktop and apparently I need to activate a Google Maps extension. I'm working on ArcGIS 10.0 and there are no such extension. Do I have to install a new extension?
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I want to try to make a simple 3D map for a small area (10 square miles) with some housing, some roads and some vegetation on it. My geodata is as follows:    shapes with houses/roads/vegetation.  LIDAR point cloud data over the area (can easily be built to a dem). georeferenced aerial image.   Any idea where to start to bundle these geodata together and make a neat looking 3D map?
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Looking at this information page for a dataset hosted on esri.com:   Trying to figure out how I can get access to the raw data (either raw lat/lng coordinates or SHP).  It looks like the data is available, I just can't figure out how to pull it from this interface.
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I am using ArcGIS to add geotagged images as points to a map which allows me to click on the point and an HTML popup comes up with the photo.     This works fine. What I would like to do, is export/print the map to a PDF and within the resulting PDF, I would like to be able to click on the points and get the same HTML popup. Does anyone know if this is possible?
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In ArcMap a Map Book is best suited for a series of features that each get their own page. It allows you to pick a feature and generate a Map Book Page for each feature including any additional information you wish to add to each page via dynamic text, charts, etc. Is there an alternative for say a series of pages showing the EXACT same area but with different layers turned on and off? We have a Capital Improvements document that I have to create showing the City Boundaries on every page. One page has all police and fire stations listed, another shows proposed water systems, another shows expressways and highways and work being done near or on them... etc., ad nauseum. Is there some way to set this up so that I DON'T have to created a separate MXD for each Map Page of this document?
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Is there any way, using the scripting available to Excel 2007 to display a Google Earth map inside a sheet?  I've used Excel to house the data that I've then gone and generated a KML file to load into Google Earth, but now they want to see a pretty little cell with a client address mapped out in Excel directly to pretty up the presentation.
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I need a way (possibly a third-party application) that allows me to use maps and GPS without an Internet connection.  I don't use it by car, just for walking in cities. It would be nice if I could just copy all data relative to a particular city before going there for tourism.  The Google Maps app does not store maps reliably, so it is risky to rely on it without an Internet connection.
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I'm new in Python programming If there are websites where developers can share their add-ins and scripts that will be great. do you know any? unfortunately, arcgis.com only provide very few
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I've seen several options using bus and subway in Google Maps, but I am looking for both the fastest and the cheapest way. I am also looking for a way to do that with the least number of line or interface changes.
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ArcGIS doesn't seem to have much support for dual monitors. Maybe I'm missing something, but as far as I can tell you can't have the data view and layout view open at the same time on the two monitors, nor can you expand the map view to fill one monitor and have the toolbars and such on the other. How do you take advantage of dual monitors?
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In newer Google Maps I can make area available offline.  Do other applications that rely on Google Maps (utilize Google Maps Android API) use offline maps?
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I've tried without much success to add a curved line feature to the ArcGIS JavaScript map.    I created a polygon with a curved edge in ArcMap:   However, when I load this same feature in the web API, it becomes segmented:   The problem started when I tried to create a curved feature from the JavaScript API itself, which only seems to allow full circle features (not circular arcs).  This makes me think that curves are still unsupported in the JavaScript API. Do you know any way around this? Do you have any other ideas on alternatives I can use to create and correctly view curved features?
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I have a conundrum that I am getting mixed advice on how to go about.  Therefore id like to put it to GIS-SE for some justified answers.  Scenario:     Client has a web mapping application.  Does not want to split into multiple smaller applications.  Although this goes against what the modern day approach is for maps on the web,  (i.e. lots of focussed web-map apps over one main web-map) I strongly believe that for some users, trying to replicate a GIS application on the web is ok (). Client has cached as much of his basemap layers into separate services. Client still requires an additional 600-700 layers in a dynamic map service... The service will be published with all of these layers turned off. It is not anticipated that users will turn on more than 10-40 layers at a time.   I imagine your initial reaction to this is similar to mine (600+?! WTF?!)  However - the requirement is set in stone and why not?  Their prior ArcIMS application had similar functionality, so why can't this newer ArcGIS Server product do the same?  The users potentially need to be able to cross compare and perform analysis on the entire range of layers, even if the layers belong to other departments.  Before you jump to conclusions, the client is a clued up ArcGIS Server admin. They have administered the 600 layers by all of the best practice rules: e.g. scale ranges combined with definition queries; annotation over labelling; generalising complex layers at small scales; publish as MSDs; etc  Problem:  What is the better approach here?     Publish all 600 layers into one dynamic map service   Split the layers into logical groupings (hydrology, planning, ecology, utilities, etc)   If you go with #1, and you have a few complex layers turned on.  If you want to turn on a simple points layer, then ArcGIS Server will still have to render the entire layers being displayed all over again.  If you go with #2, each time your making a request, potentially, the web application could have to make several GET requests for ExportMaps from the individual map services (is this bad, or does it create additional load to ArcGIS Server over #1?)  And then this leads to configuration &amp; tuning to ensure everything is as quick as possible. We can scale the back end of ArcGIS Server to multiple hosts and have some good hardware to sit it on.  If you go with #1, you can throw the maximum # of instances that you AGS can handle.  If you go with #2, I assume you evaluate the performance of the map services (load testing and look at wait times) and address the min/max instances accordingly to ensure there is not one service that is a 'weak link'.  Im currently leaning towards the #2 approach, as my head is still telling me that having 600 layers in one service is madness, but if they are all turned off by default, there really is no issue.  Would love to hear your thoughts.  Let me know if you need more info via the comments, but not looking for answers like 'use a desktop application' or 'educate them to do things differently'    From discussions in comments, I failed to mention another consideration.  The application that the service will be consumed within, has the ability for layer level security (at the application level).  Therefore the group of users (that is fairly large) are assigned to a particular role, and that role will have access to the full 600 layers.  Other roles will be limited.
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I'm sorry if my question sounds clumsy, I'm not a seasoned BGE user.  I'd like to make a virtual tour for Gear VR and/or Google Cardboard in the BGE that works on Mobile.  Is this doable in a user friendly way using the BGE? Can I export to Mobile (android, IOS, Windows Phone)? I know this is possible using Unity, but I find Unity difficult to use. I've tried UE4, but the process is a big mess, it requires a buggy multi-level hack that only results in wasting my time.
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I would like to build a cartogram map using Web GIS.   I have a basemap and a set of raw data in excel.   I wondered what are the steps to build up a cartogram map using Web GIS?  Note: Originally this Question solicited Answers for both Web GIS and ArcGIS for Desktop.  A new Question has been asked focussed on ArcGIS for Desktop () and so this one has now been focussed on Web GIS (which itself is still quite broad).