/geoservices-js

Geoservices for Javascript

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Geoservices-js

Node.js bindings for Geoservices.

This module exposes both authenticated and non-authenticated aspects of Geoservices such as ArcGIS Online.

Non-authenticated Services

  • Geocoding
  • Reverse Geocoding
  • Addresses
  • Feature Services

Authenticated Services

  • Bulk Geocoding

Usage

Installing

$ npm install geoservices

Basic Usage

var Geoservices = require('geoservices');

var client = new Geoservices();

Building

Geoservices uses grunt for its build system. To install:

$ sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

To build and run tests, simply run:

$ grunt

Testing

Testing can also occur stand-alone:

$ npm test

Further documentation

  • Feature Services are the primary way of accessing vector features from Esri services, and are very deep in terms on functionality.
  • Geocoding documents how to do simple geocoding, reverse geocoding and batch geocoding.

For more information see the Geoservices Specification available at http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/geoservices-rest-spec.pdf

Contributing

Esri welcomes contributions from anyone and everyone. Please see our guidelines for contributing.

This is an open library for communicating with any service that implements the Geoservices specification. The default endpoint for Geocoding is ArcGIS Online. Please see Terms of Use for licensing and usage details.

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