Found in the Wild: ArcGIS API for Flex

The website HealthLandscape.org uses ESRI’s ArGIS API for Flex to populate maps by county of various medical issues, including a map of confirmed cases of H1N1 virus in the U.S. The interesting part? When I right clicked expecting to see just the Adobe plug-in commands, I was pleased to see: About ESRI ArcGIS API for Flex and could find the build number. I see now, but don’t recall if I did before, the same thing in the Morris County NJ site.

I don’t know if this is something new from Adobe that allows such information to be put in the right click menu, or if this is simply something ESRI or the developer chose to implement for this app. In any case, this is effective branding, especially for map geeks who always want to know about the underlying technology!