Latest Contributions by ChrisSmith7

You can always check out AGOL http://www.arcgis.com/features/plans/pricing.html If you need to host on your own infrastructure, you can run ArcGIS for Server. A basic set-up for software only would run you 20k. This would give you a 4-core license - it's 5k for each additional core. If you happen to package Esri with your product, like if you sell seats to a website which embeds ArcGIS Server maps and functionality, you may need an ASP license. A 4-core license for this would run about 40k. Maintenance would run you about 10k/year (2500 per core). Keep in mind, you will also have expense in buying the server and for server maintenance. Additionally, you may need to spend some money on your network backbone. ... View more

In the private sector, I've noticed there are sometimes "first right/shop right" clauses - say you patented a GIS algorithm and happened to work for a GIS shop that had this in effect - they might be entitled to use the patent; they may even own the patent... Just something to keep in mind! ... View more

Jessica - not sure if this is helpful, but I found this referenced on one of their story map examples (Make a Map Tour Story Map😞 The order of the records in the file determines the order in which the points will appear on the map... As the order of the points in the layer determines their order in the tour, you can use the Sort geoprocessing tool if you want to reorder the records. ... View more

Jim, You may have to go in to the admin portal and start the service - I can't remember if it's started by default. ... View more

I simply create a blank HTML page from text in js. Inside of the page, insert the map content, which, in my case, is just the innerHTML of the document - document.documentElement.innerHTML (I pipe-in maps over an iframe, so I just grab the whole page). You can then just open a print dialog and write the HTML, and voila, a scrape of the map. ... View more

I tested - they seem to work fine for me, for example: Are you sure you're using the correct links? You are missing the "/rest" component of the URL in the links you gave... ... View more

You would need to get in touch with the administrators of those services if you are having issues. But, it looks like they are available: http://services.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services http://services.nconemap.gov/arcgis/rest/services https://gis11.services.ncdot.gov/arcgis/rest/services ... View more

I think it would be nice if Esri could provide something like an RSS feed for keyword searches, or maybe by geographic area. You could also try searching most recently updated first: http://opendata.arcgis.com/datasets?q=Minnesota&sort_by=updated_at ... View more

Is searching the Open Data site not an option? E.g.: http://opendata.arcgis.com/datasets?q=Minnesota&sort_by=relevance ... View more

I downloaded the template and tried it on my end... It works well: Change "initialZoomLevel"" Re-load map: ... View more

Did you only add the missing modules? "dijit/form/ToggleButton",              "dijit/form/DropDownButton", "dijit/CheckedMenuItem",  ... View more

I confirmed this works in jsfiddle - adding the missing requires. ... View more

That would get my vote, unless they need functionality for users on the system. ... View more

In the config.js file, there is a setting for initial zoom level: //Initial zoom level for overview map initialZoomLevel: 2, ... View more