ArcGIS Developer Foundation case studies
ArcGIS Developer Foundation · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The ArcGIS Developer Foundation credential is presented by Esri as a training and certification offering aimed at developers who build mapping and spatial analysis applications with ArcGIS technology. Esri's own navigation describes Developer Technology as the path to "Build mapping & spatial analysis applications." This page is an independent study resource for candidates preparing for that credential. The ArcGIS Developer Foundation case studies are 5 cases and about 3,825 words.
1API Key Editing Failure in a 40-Technician Field App
A regional water utility built an internal JavaScript Maps SDK app for 40 field technicians who record valve inspections in a hosted feature layer in ArcGIS Online. The layer is shared with the FieldOps group, editor tracking is enabled, and the workflow is view-assigned-valves then applyEdits on Save.
851 words, about 4 min2Dashboard Aggregates Over 1.4 Million Pothole Reports
A public works analyst maintains a dashboard of 1,412,000 pothole and streetlight reports stored in a hosted feature layer. The dashboard must show the total number of open reports, counts grouped by status and by council district, and a citywide map.
745 words, about 4 min3Geocoding 82,400 Patient Addresses for Mobile Clinic Planning
A regional health network needs to map 82,400 patient addresses from a CSV to plan mobile clinic routes. The developer's prototype runs in the browser: for each row it calls the World Geocoding Service findAddressCandidates endpoint, then draws a point.
739 words, about 4 min4500-Meter Hydrant Proximity Search at 61 Degrees North
A city at 61.2 degrees north maintains 12,400 hydrants in a hosted feature layer published in WGS 1984 (EPSG:4326). A dispatch web app lets a call-taker click a leak location and list hydrants within 500 meters.
722 words, about 4 min5Ten-Day Offline Inspections with Sync Conflicts
An environmental agency sends 6 inspectors to remote watersheds for up to 10 days with no cellular coverage. Each inspector carries an iPad and must view about 1,800 assigned stream-monitoring sites from a hosted feature layer of 46,000 features, create new inspection points, and attach 2 to 4 photos per site.
768 words, about 4 min