For those of you who missed the ArcGIS for the iPhone and iPad webinar hosted by Esri and Directions Media, the recording of this event is now available.

View now: ArcGIS for the iPhone and iPad (registration required)

James Richards, President of Artisan Global LLC, presented along with David Cardella, Esri’s ArcGIS Product Manager for iOS, and Kurt Daradics, the Business Development Director for CitySourced.

Kurt discussed how the CitySourced app increases ROI for their clients. (Begins at 15:30) James presented best practices for working with ArcGIS for iOS. (Begins at 22:45)

For this event, Artisan Global and CitySourced also collaborated on a technical white paper.

The paper begins with an overview of the CitySourced app and the reasons why they migrated to the ArcGIS API for iOS.

A technical discussion follows, with code samples that show:

• Base map options available through the API.
• Waiting for the map to load before drawing graphics.
• How to perform WGS84 to Web Mercator transformation on the device.
• Tips for drawing pins on the map for improved usability.

Dowload now: CitySourced ArcGIS API for iOS Implementation

James Richards will be expanding on these topics and more in the coming weeks on his blog Programming and the GeoWeb.