[josm-dev] ArcGIS REST or SOAP support

[Ian Dees]

I'd be happy to write an extension to the imagery code to allow this. In the
mean time, I can set up a tile cache for you to use with your data if you
give me the URL for the ArcGIS REST page.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I've found that Virginia, USA offers their off-leaf orthophotos from
> 2002, 2006/2007 and soon 2009 in the public domain [1], but it is only
> accessible via an ArcGIS server that only offers ArcGIS REST and
> ArcGIS SOAP interfaces. For my area this imagery is better than Bing
> and Yahoo combined, since it has the high resolution of Bing, it's
> off-leaf like Yahoo, plus it's public domain. Problem is I can't use
> it in JOSM, or any other editor that I know of.
>
> From my naive point of view, ArcGIS REST and WMS look very similar.
> I've tried to find a REST/WMS adapter but haven't had any luck.
>
> Anyone know if an adapter exists, or how difficult it would be to
> adapt the JOSM WMS code to support REST? The specification is publicly
> available [2].
>
> Thanks,
> -Josh
>
> [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Virginia#Resources
> [2]: http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/rest/
>
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