Standard Esri Map Control

Standard Esri Map Control - Overview

Most Archibus assets are geographic in nature, that is, they have locations that exists somewhere on earth. Any asset with a geographic location can be displayed on a map. Using basemaps and other content from ArcGIS Online, the Archibus Standard ESRI Map Control provides the ability to display, query, and edit Archibus assets on a map in Standard Map Views. This gives you the opportunity to include web mapping as part of your Web Central solution.

Note: Previously, Archibus provided a Flash-based map control. If you have existing Flash-based map views that you want to convert, global search under the schema folder for .axvw files containing ab-flash and ab-arcgis-flash-map.

Esri Map Control vs. Leaflet Map Control

Archibus provides two standard map controls:

Standard Esri Map Control
Standard Leaflet Map Control.

While both controls offer many of the same functions, Leaflet does provide advantages:

Multiple providers -- With Leaflet, you can use either Google or Esri basemaps.
Lighter weight – The Leaflet API is lighter than the Esri API. Since the API is smaller, views that contain maps load faster.
Simplified API – The Leaflet map control API was designed to be simpler and more consistent than the Standard Esri map control. It should be easier for developers to use.
Additional features – Leaflet offers these features, which are not yet included with the Esri map control:
- marker clusters
- an improved marker legend
- geoJson mashups

Esri Map Control Features

The following scenarios are supported: