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New workflows for adding points in different formats (DDM, DD, DMS etc.) We've implemented a custom graphics layer which persists graphics in local storage - check it out here: gist.github.com/JonnyDawe/8d.... #arcgis #arcgisJS

Nice! What are you using for the coordinate parsing/formatting? developers.arcgis.com/javascript/l...? And for the measurements, using the DistanceMeasurementViewModel or fully custom implementation?

Yep we use the coordinateFormatter to parse the text input into Points. Going the other way, we have some of our own simple formatting logic to convert the points back into the different formats we support. The measurements were heavily inspired by this article: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

Instead of an Arcade implementation, I'm utilising an extended graphics layer which has some custom labelling logic attached. The main reason for this implementation was because I wanted more control over the labelling and specifying geodetic measurements vs projected measurements.

This is the implementation: gist.github.com/JonnyDawe/3e...

Very cool! We’re in the process of improving the programmatic APIs for measurements and other such tools and this can feed right back into some of the designs and discussions we’ve had.

That would be amazing. My impression of the 2d measurements widget has been that it feels a tad "underpowered" at the moment. My biggest wishlist is: 1) Geodesic support for measurements (including supporting showing the drawn geometry as densified geodesic lines).