map initialextent

Question

Greetings!  Please bear with me as I'm an extreme newbie to GIS stuff.  I am working with the Flex API and following the tutorial.  I'm trying to change the initialextent of the map element to show our county.  The extent numbers I have gotten from ArcMap are in the image:

When I plug those in, I find myself zoomed all the way in to some place in the middle of Russia.<map initialextent="11470347 7217012.5 11615122 7050199">

Am I using the wrong set of numbers?  Am I putting them in the wrong order?  Again, I'm quite new to working with GIS, so please be as simple as you think you need to be.

Thanks!

Jeremy

JeremyCoulson · Answer

Hey Drew!  I had figured out that I needed to switch to dynamic.  There's so much to learn and I know next to nothing about GIS.

Thanks!

Jeremy

DrewDowling · Answer

Jeremy

is your map service http://gis1.co.frederick.va.us/ArcGIS/rest/services/Publicsite/MapServer, tiled or dynamic? If it is tiled then the results of your geocoding could be zooming the map to a scale larger than the cached scales.

What also might be happening is you are using geocoding service set up in a different projection system and the resulting point is again somewhere in the middle of Russia.

Drew

JeremyCoulson · Answer

Robert! Apparently I was. I commented out all of the default ESRI services included with Flex Viewer and pasted in a few of our own. Right now I have this: You see I commented out a LOT of stuff. We now get the image of our county like we wanted. Success! I cannot give you a link to it because it's internal only at the moment, but here's a screen shot: So, could you direct me where to go next? For example, if I search for an address, the application seems to zoom in to an address, but it's all just gray. I'm assuming this is because I need to specify some layers. I just don't know what to tell my friend in GIS to supply me with next. Any direction will be deeply appreciated as I embark on this new challenge. Thanks! Jeremy