Welcome to the MDS Foundation Map

Javascript API

Open up the JavaScript sample in a text editor or IDE. The sample includes a custom class that builds on the standard ArcGISTileMapServiceLayer to allow your application to consume tiles from the MDS Foundation Map.

All that is required to make this sample functional is to modify the line of code shown below that sets up the URLs that will be used to access the map tiles.

          // URL(s) for MDS Foundation Map Tile Servers specified here 
             mdsurls = "********* INSERT MDS Foundation Map Tile Server URL(s) here ************";

Replace the text between the quotes in this line with the list of URLs that were provided with your welcome email . Make sure the URLs are separated by commas and there are no spaces in the string. The code will look something like this:-  

          // URL(s) for MDS Foundation Map Tile Servers specified here
	     mdsurls = “http://ur1l,http://url2,http://url3,http://url4”

The copyright attribution that needs to be displayed on top of the map is created using a <DIV> tag inside the ESRI map object <DIV>. This needs to be included in every application that uses this custom layer and the MDS Foundation Map.

Flex API

There are two samples in this package - one based on Flex 3 and Version 1.3 of the ESRI Flex API, and the other based on Flex 4 and Version 2.0 of the ESRI Flex API.  Both samples include a custom class that builds on the standard ArcGISTileMapServiceLayer to allow your application to consume tiles from the MDS Foundation Map.

All that is required to make the samples functional is to modify the line of code in the file FlexFoundationMap.mxml shown below that sets up the URLs that will be used to access the map tiles.

Replace the text between the quotes in this line with the list of URLs that were provided with your welcome email .  Make sure the URLs are separated by commas and there are no spaces in the string. The code will look something like this:-

Now build and run the application. These sample applications are just designed to illustrate how the custom class defined in src/customlayers/ MDSTiledMapServiceLayer.as can be incorporated into an application.

If you locate the file MDSTiledMapServiceLayer.as in a different location than src/customlayers, you will need to modify the namespace declaration in your mxml accordingly.

The copyright attribution that needs to be displayed on top of the map is created using a <mx:Label> tag inside the same container (Canvas) as the ESRI map class This needs to be included in every application that uses this custom layer and the MDS Foundation Map.

Silverlight API

The Silverlight sample consists of a Visual Studio 2010 solution that includes three projects – the custom class to communicate with the MDS Foundation Map (SLMDSFoundationMapClasses), a Silverlight project that hosts the map (SLMDSFoundationMap), and a test web project (SLMDSFoundationMap.Web).

To make the sample functional, open the file MainPage.xaml  in the SLMDSFoundationMap project , and locate the line of code that defines the MDSTiledMapServiceLayer (see below):-

Replace the text between the quotes in this line with the list of URLs that were provided with your welcome email.  Make sure the URLs are separated by commas and there are no spaces in the string. The code will look something like this:-

The copyright attribution that needs to be displayed on top of the map is created using a <TextBlock> element in the same layout Grid as the map control. This needs to be included in every application that uses this custom layer and the MDS Foundation Map. 

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