As GIS professionals when we make maps, one of the most critical components to that map has always been the legend. I have head the statement before that If your map needs a legend, there’s something wrong with your cartography. Yeah right, maybe if you’re making a street map, but when you are building analysis [...]

I’m going to try to use the next few blog posts to go over how I use the tools I’ve provided in the FlexMapTools toolbox I put up on github. The first is the FMap component, which extends the ESRI Map component. This component started as a way to control the position of the ESRI [...]

Recently, I have been using Swiz on a couple of smaller projects that are in the works. Swiz is a great little framework that is incredibly light weight. You can see some great examples using Swiz as well as some good discussion in the google groups. I am still using 0.6.4, but the 1.0 alpha [...]

I was inspired by this posting on the ESRI ArcGIS Server Blog filed in the Flex tag, that linked your graphics on a map with a DataGrid. This is a useful function and one I thought could be encapsulated into it’s own task. In my case, I just had a need to highlight a graphic [...]

>I have been developing with Flex for about a year now and so far it has been a really fun experience. I am by no means a trained developer, I just happened to have taken some some C++ and VB6 courses in school and fell into it. That being said, I had very little clue [...]