Roberts Custom WAB Widgets

I think the ability to have Google Basemaps would be a huge advantage, that is one of the biggest compaints I get from users about the ESRI apps is that the Google imagery is better.

Thanks for any information or consideration you could give this.

RobertScheitlin__GISP · ‎11-13-2015

Larry,

My interpretation (and many others too) of the Google Terms for Use/Service is that you can not legally do this. All the examples I have seen are a violation and can lead to legal action.

BarnabyRockwell · ‎11-13-2015

^ ^ This is my impression as well. For the most part, I am very happy with the ESRI World Imagery basemap.

LarryPhelps · ‎11-13-2015

I had explained to our Google rep what I would like to eventually do with our Google Maps API license and they didn't seem to have any concerns, in fact there are companies selling the capability to add it into Arcmap with the Arc2Earth what is different about what they are doing? I as well am personally happy with the ESRI imagery but am constantly fighting the Google battle with my users.

RobertScheitlin__GISP · ‎11-13-2015

Larry,

I can not explain how Arc2Earth is making it past adding Google map tiles to ArcMap without violating the TOS that states that their tiles are not to used outside the Google maps API. Anyway the jist of it my understanding of the TOS prevents me from developing a widget or app that will use Google maps as a basemap.

LarryPhelps · ‎11-13-2015

Thanks for your responses Robert, I appreciate it. I have directly asked my Google rep to tell me if I can develop a tool to add Google imagery as a basemap in an ESRI web map.

MelissaMeneghetti · ‎11-17-2015

Hi Robert,

Really appreciate all of the work you do to produce the custom WAB widgets. I see that you are taking a break but was hoping you may be able to answer a question. For the flex viewer there was a 'Selection' widget that was developed which was really comparable to ArcGIS desktop's 'select by attributes' and 'select by location' GUI. This is a pretty handy tool and easy for a user to use for selecting data.

The widget can be found here Selection Widget Updated Version for flex. Is there any consideration in the future for creating a WAB version of this tool.

Thanks!

Melissa

DAVIDDAS1 · ‎11-17-2015

Hi Melissa,

You are right!

Indeed there was a Selection Widget in the Flex Version that mimicked the Select by Attribute Wizard in ArcMap.

You can see this Selection Widget in action right here.

http://www.tapasdas.com/Maps/Desktops/web29

Robert has stated his reasons why he does not want to bring this level of complexity to a Web App that will be used by the public.

MelissaMeneghetti · ‎11-17-2015

Thanks Tapas...this is exactly the widget I was referring too! Robert mentions another developer that is taking on this task?

DAVIDDAS1 · ‎11-17-2015

Melissa,

I am delighted to learn from Robert that someone is actually developing this Widget for the Web AppBuilder.

This is great news!

A lot of our internal folks (not the general public) would love to have this analysis tool.