Measuring Length and Area without using Geometry Service

[FlexDeveloper]

Hi all,

We were trying out an application in flex using arcgis server 9.3.1 and flex API 1.3 for measuring distance and area of a  Map without using a Geometry Service. Is it possible to calculate like this? we are thinking to calculate it from screen distance and Map scale.

Kindly reply asap.


Thanks in advance

[Drew]

This is how it was done in the ArcIMS days.. I would dig through some ArcIMS code to find the math or search ArcScripts for some Javascript code that did this.

Obviously you would have to convert all the JS code into Actionscript but that should not be too hard considering they are almost identical in syntax.

Drew