topic Re: Best practice to show gis map in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Best practice to show gis map

BhavinSanghani — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:23:30 GMT

I need to integrate ArcGIS server with my web-based product. I am using ArcGIS Javascript API for the integration. I have placeholder parameters in my product where my customers can put url of map service, feature service etc. In this scenario, what is the best practice to show map? Should I use ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer or I should add all published feature layers and create the map? I tried both ways and it looks adding feature layer one by one is little time consuming whereas using ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer results in little poor quality of the map e.g. distorted lines.

Any suggestions?

Re: Best practice to show gis map

JeffPace — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:32:36 GMT

dyanmiclayer should not be poor quality. In fact, it should be better than featurelayer as featurelayer auto-generalizes.

Re: Best practice to show gis map

BhavinSanghani — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:20:12 GMT

What is auto-generalize? I googled and it appeared related to geometry. But wanted to understand in detail how ArcGISDynamicLayer considers it. Any example?