[josm-dev] ArcGIS REST or SOAP support

[Josh Doe]

That would be fantastic! There's a number of data layers available on
the server, but the REST URL for the latest aerial imagery is located
here:
http://gismaps.virginia.gov/arcgis2/rest/services/VBMP2006_2007/MapServer

Thanks,
-Josh

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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