Kristian Ekenes is a Product Engineer on the ArcGIS API for JavaScript team at Esri. His work focuses on mapping, visualization, and Arcade integration. Prior to joining Esri he worked as a GIS Specialist for an environmental consulting company. He enjoys cartography, GIS analysis, and building GIS applications for genealogy.
Capacity Analysis is a new app demonstrating why custom web apps can be better solutions that generic web mapping software like ArcGIS Online.
Mapping large amounts of data on the web has always been a challenge. Learn techniques you can use to improve performance with large datasets.
The Map Viewer Beta allows you to automatically change the size of point and line symbols by scale for all styles.
Though subtle, icon and outline sizes varied by scale will turn a mediocre visualization into a great one.
The Esri color ramps and Visualization Best Practices guide pages assist you in creating better maps using better combinations of colors.
Clustering allows you to summarize and explore point layers as spatial clusters.
Add additional meaning and context to your data-driven map using a colored histogram instead of a legend.
The ArcGIS API for JavaScript provides more than a dozen easy-to-use widgets for data exploration.
Learn how to use dot density to visualize how population changes from nighttime to daytime.
