This article is based on a presentation that I made at the Adobe Flex seminar
in August 2006 (www.flexseminar.com/), after which the master of ceremonies
Jeremy Geelan asked me to explain how to make great mapping mashups using
Adobe Flex.
My name is Mansour Raad. I'm the senior software architect of ESRI's ArcWeb
Services. ESRI (www.esri.com) is a provider of Geographic Information Systems
(GIS). On any given day, more than one million people around the world use
ESRI's GIS to improve the way their organizations conduct business.
A geographic information system is a system for management, analysis, and
display of geographic knowledge, which is represented using a series of
information sets such as maps and globes, geographic data sets, processing
and work flow models, ... (more)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services today are going mainstream.
Corporate executives and individuals at home are demanding access to many of
the same GIS capabilities previously used only by engineers, geologists, and
government officials.
ESRI's ArcWeb Services are at the forefront of expanding demand for
interactive GIS applications. Using subscription-based Web mapping APIs, ... (more)