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Esri API options

Esri API options

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Esri API options

Let me show the API development options with the ESRI and they are vast. ESRI is providing the user community with a large amount of options for API development along many different programming languages. Scrolling down here, you can see on the left, the software development kits and API's that they are offering to the user community. They are providing a large amount of resources available depending on the language of your choice. Now if you don't know any of these languages, let me suggest you learn JavaScript or Java, first. And that will give you a greater dexterity in your application development projects. The great thing about Esri's option for API development is that you can incorporate a much truer gis functionality. And your applications. So let me show you some of the options through the JavaScript examples. Here I will click on JavaScript and now this loads the JavaScript API resources. Notice in the beginning here they have a getting started page, just like Google and…

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