jQuery/User Search Questions

Question

For reference, this is the data I want to access: Airports

I am looking to pull only certain parts of the data available from that reference based on what a user searches for. In particular, the airport name, code, and latitude/longitude. I want to then display that information on a Google map, not an ArcGIS map.

I have spent this week assuming I could do that via jQuery/AJAX, but I am beginning to think I have a misunderstanding of what AJAX is meant for. An example would be a user types in "LAX" and the returned result plots a location on a Google map and then displays the airport information available, such as address, phone number, etc.

Based on that, I have some questions:

1.) Can I use jQuery/AJAX to achieve what I want to do?

2.) If yes, how do you query that data set? There are two types of files (GeoService and GeoJSON)

3.) The code I have thus far, and I'll post it if I'm at least on the right track, continually returns all of a particular data field, such as all airport codes. It's not limiting it to only what the user searched for. And this is on a locally hosted JSON file, not the ArcGIS server.

Thank you for your help.

RobertScheitlin__GISP · Answer

Robert,

Am I able to retrieve specific data and display it outside of the map and just onto a table or a website?

Sure the Query class returnGeometry property can be set to false if you do not need the spatial portion and only need the data attributes

RobertSmith · Answer

Thank you for the reply. I did some looking into this and this may be an option for a starting point. Am I able to retrieve specific data and display it outside of the map and just onto a table or a website? Some of the information I need doesn't need to be on the map, while the rest can.

RobertScheitlin__GISP · Answer

Robert,

I would recommend using the JS API and use the service url.

https://services6.arcgis.com/ssFJjBXIUyZDrSYZ/arcgis/rest/services/US_Airport/FeatureServer/0

You can use a QueryTask to query the data you want and you can add the graphics returned to a GraphicsLayer to add to the map.

There is no need to add 3rd party library like jQuery when this can all be done in the esri JS API.