Getting to Know Web GIS

Learn state-of-the-art skills to build compelling, useful, and fun Web GIS apps easily, with no previous programming experience required.

Building on the foundation of the previous three editions, Getting to Know Web GIS, fourth edition, features the latest advances in Esri’s entire Web GIS platform, from the cloud server side to the client side. Discover and apply what’s new in ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, Map Viewer, Esri StoryMaps, Web AppBuilder, Survey123 for ArcGIS, and more. Learn about recent Web GIS products such as ArcGIS Experience Builder, ArcGIS Indoors, and ArcGIS QuickCapture. Understand updates in mobile GIS such as Collector for ArcGIS and AuGeo, and then build your own web apps. Further your skillset with detailed sections and chapters on ArcGIS Dashboard, ArcGIS Analytics for the Internet of Things, online spatial analysis, image services, 3D web scenes, ArcGIS API for JavaScript, and best practices in Web GIS.

Each chapter is written for immediate productivity with a good balance of principles and hands-on exercises and includes: 

• A conceptual discussion section to give you the big picture and principles,
• A detailed tutorial section with step-by-step instructions,
• A Q/A section to answer common questions, 
• An assignment section to reinforce your comprehension, and 
• A list of resources with more information.

Ideal for classroom lab work and on-the-job training for GIS students, instructors, GIS analysts, managers, web developers, and other professionals, Getting to Know Web GIS, fourth edition, uses a holistic approach to systematically teach the breadth of Esri Geospatial Cloud.

To download the instructor slides, tutorial data, and assignment data, visit esri.com/gtkwebgis4.