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RyanRyan4
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11 years ago

Using Quickbase to live update an Arcgis Online webmap

Arcgis Online is an online program capable of building a map from a CSV file containing LAT/LONG values. We alright have a database prepared for this, but rather than export and upload the CSV man...
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_anomDiebolt_
Qrew Elite
11 years ago
Arcgis supports a JavaScript API so you might be able to perform this using (1) the QuickBase API, (2) the ArcGIS API, and (3) client side JavaScript without involving Ruby or a third party server:
ARCGIS javaScript APIhttps://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jsapi/

It appears that Arcgis supports JSONP which is one of two popular ways (the other being CORS) to get around the same origin policy which would normally prevent you from exchaning data between two different domains:

ARCGIS JSONP Example https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jssamples/data_requestJsonp.html

There might be a very simple solution where you call QuickBase's API to get CSV data and pump it to the appropriate Arcgis endpoint appropriately formatted.
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