1. 2013 Esri International Developer Summit March 25 - 28, 2013
Presented by: Robert Winterbottom
Blue Raster

2. Editing tools made easy
 Goals
 Configure the editor widget to
support non-GIS users
 Keep it simple
 Limit the tasks our users
could perform
 Add additional capabilities to
the editor widget

3. Keeping it simple
 Easily identifiable tools.
 Simple tools
 Draw/Erase
 Polygon and Freehand Polygon drawing
 Undo/ Redo
 Edit Vertices

4. Custom Editing Tools
 != “Reinvent the wheel”.
 Reassemble the wheel with
components that were already
available from Esri’s JavaScript
API.
 Combination of draw
toolbar, edit toolbar, and the
Geometry Service.

5. Drawing
 Polygon or Freehand
Polygon tool.
 Draw the shape and
automatically join the
geometries.
 Geometry Service
Method: Union

6. Erasing
 Draw a shape and
automatically
remove that section
from the polygon.
 Geometry Service
Method: Difference

7. Editing Vertices
 Give our user greater
precision.
 Great tool already.
 Snapping!

8. Interact with neighboring polygons
 Show neighboring
polygons.
 Highlight overlapping
polygons.
 Provide feedback.
 Geometry Service
Methods: Buffer,
Intersect, Relation

9. Thank you.
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