ArcGIS online postcode boundaries: how to show my data

Question

Hi all,

I'm new to GIS and still struggling to 'getting started'.

I need to have an Australian map with postcode boundaries on my webpage. When a set of postcodes is selected, the map should be zoomed to the area and showing postcodes boundaries. When click on one of the boundary, it should pop-up and showing my own data related to that postcode stored in Excel.

I've copied a map with Australian postcode boundaries to my online account. Here are my questions:

(1) How to use Locator to zoom to selected postcodes? eg. postcodes 2000, 2001, 2003 are selected and the map should be zoomed to display these three postcodes boundaries on the map.

(2) How to display my data related to the selected postcode?

Really appreciate your helps.

Best Regards,

Joe

JoeZou · Answer

The Map Viewer in ArcGIS Online will only get you so far. You could define an interactive filter on your postal code layer (available from the context menu of the layer), and then display a table of the matching records, but this would be a bit hidden for someone using the map. It sounds like you'll need to write your own application to do this. I'd suggest checking out the various API references.

http://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/silverlight-api/
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/flex-api/

Thanks,

Mike

Thanks Mike! Appreciate your help.

I've gone throught the tutorial to create maps online and tutorial for Javascript (the first link you provided). I haven't gone through silverlight, flex materials as my project is MVC 4 application. The tutorial is not enough for me to continue my project and I feel going nowhere.

Any suggestion for me to continue getting started?

Best Regards,

Joe

MikeMinamiP1 · Answer

The Map Viewer in ArcGIS Online will only get you so far. You could define an interactive filter on your postal code layer (available from the context menu of the layer), and then display a table of the matching records, but this would be a bit hidden for someone using the map. It sounds like you'll need to write your own application to do this. I'd suggest checking out the various API references.

http://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/silverlight-api/
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/flex-api/

Thanks,

Mike