topic Re: Change the "basemap" option in the Map class in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Change the "basemap" option in the Map class

SaqibAmin1 — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:48:37 GMT

Does anyone know how to amend the basemap option below, so that I can add a dynamic map service (...../mapserver) instead of the ArcGISonline map?

I know about e.g. map.addLayers(dynamicMapService), however I want to see if there is a a way to amend the below.

      map = new Map("map", {
        basemap: "topo"
      }

Re: Change the "basemap" option in the Map class

JeffPace — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:59:36 GMT

Yes you just have to define it as a basemap, using a basemaplayer

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jsapi/basemap-amd.html

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jsapi/basemaplayer-amd.html

Re: Change the "basemap" option in the Map class

ralphholmes — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:09:50 GMT

add the code

BaseMapLayer = new esri.layers.ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer ("rest server location");

map.addLayers([BaseMapLayer])

Re: Change the "basemap" option in the Map class

SaqibAmin1 — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:02:51 GMT

Thanks for your replies, Jeff and Ralph.

Ralph, I have already tried this method, the dynamic map displays on the page, however I wanted to amend the basemap property in the map object, so that instead of using ArcGISOnline pre-defined maps, my dynamic map services are used as a basemap.

Jeff, I will have a look at the class definitions and see if I can make sense of it.