ArcGIS Lite API for Flex
The ArcGIS API for Flex is pretty amazing and very powerful, but it is very GIS centric. Flex Programmers have to know for example the difference between mercator and geographical coordinates systems and have to understand the concepts of map layers, etc…. Programmers just want to put dots on maps at a specific latitude and longitude. This is very easy to do say for example using the google map API and folks have been asking for something like that for a while. So, I am please to tell you about an open source project that we have launched on github that is exactly that. A simple mapping API that is based on the core API to enable Flex developers to build mapping applications. The idea to open source the project is to let you see how some high level functions are implemented using the low level API. Here is a quick sample: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s=...