[Talk-us] Getting data from ArcIMS servers

[Toby Murray]

Oh cool. Do you know how to determine if the server is indeed running
the WMS Connector and what the URL would be? I found a "how to
configure" page about the connector which seems to indicate that it
should live at /servlet/com.esri.wms.Esrimap but the county server
(gis.rileycountyks.gov) returns an error for that URL.

By the looks of it, my county is running an older version of ArcIMS. I
did specifically mention that it would be cool if they had a WMS
server and that's when I was directed at ArcExplorer. I'm not sure how
technical the person I'm talking to is so she may just not know. The
county currently doesn't have a GIS director so I'm kind of trying to
figure out as much as possible on my own until they hire a new
director at which point I may be able to get permission/access to use
more than just imagery.


Toby

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Toby,
>
> Toby Murray wrote:
>>
>> So I guess the main question is: Is anyone already familiar with this
>> format and/or would there be much demand in the OSM community for
>> something that uses it?
>
> The ArcIMS server does have the capability of serving WMS clients (by means
> of something they call WMSConnector). It is not unlikely that your county
> actually has this enabled - which would solve all your problems since WMS
> servers can readily be accessed by the major editors (oh well, at least by
> JOSM and Merkaartor, I hope RichardF isn't on this list too).
>
> Another avenue you could try is using the TileCache software which has
> support for ArcIMS backends, so you should be able to create tiles from the
> county server, then serve up these tiles through your own, even local, web
> server for use by your editor. Potlatch and JOSM can both display tiles in
> the background (not sure about others but likely they can do it too).
>
> Of course you could also extend JOSM's WMS plugin to work with ArcIMS
> natively, or write a standalone ArcIMS to WMS gateway.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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