The coding assignment for this lesson is in three parts. Here are some instructions for completing the assignment.
Although we learned about adding WebMaps and WebScenes to our apps, for full credit on Parts 1 and II you will need to add layers to the Map as discussed in 5.4 Layer Types. This will be useful in the next lessons where we need to access layers for custom symbology, queries, and features.
The Transportation Planning and Programming (TPP) division of the Texas Department of Transportation has published vector tile basemaps for Texas as services through ArcGIS Online. Find one of these services and create an app that displays its data in a 3D scene, zoomed in to the City of Houston.
Hint: You can narrow down your search in ArcGIS Online to different content types like Maps, Layers, Scenes, etc. Some content types are broken into sub-categories as well. Use the ability to search by content type along with appropriate search terms to identify the correct service. (Make sure you're not searching only the Penn State group content!)
If you're unable to find the described service, create a 3D app that displays data from some other vector tile service for partial credit.
One of Esri's sample ArcGIS Server instances hosts a map service that contains U.S. cities, interstates, and state/county boundaries:
USA (MapServer) [1]
Build an app that displays just the county boundaries on a 2D map. In your solution, you should be taking a snapshot of the data on the server and passing that to the client rather than passing the features themselves. Be sure to read the documentation carefully for how to display just the county sublayer. It might be a good idea to display all of the sublayers first before attempting to filter out some of them.
In this lesson, you began using a relatively basic IDE, Notepad++. For the last part of this week's assignment, I'd like you to download and experiment with a different IDE (Visual Studio Code [2], Sublime [3], WebStorm [4], Eclipse [5], Netbeans [6], Komodo [7]), then share your thoughts on it in a recorded video. Here are some detailed instructions:
This project is one week in length. Please refer to the Canvas course Calendar for the due date.
Links
[1] http://sampleserver6.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/USA/MapServer
[2] https://code.visualstudio.com/
[3] https://www.sublimetext.com/
[4] https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
[5] https://eclipseide.org/
[6] https://netbeans.apache.org/
[7] https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/