[Talk-us] Getting data from ArcIMS servers

[Frederik Ramm]

Toby,

Toby Murray wrote:
> 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.

Ok they have the WMS connector running. You can add the following WMS 
source to JOSM to retrieve their aerial imagery:

http://gis.rileycountyks.gov/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?request=GetMap&layers=0&format=image/jpeg&srs=EPSG:4326&version=1.0.0&

They also offer other layers (Parks, Streets, Churches, Streets, Public 
Buildings, and Cities) which can be accessed by changing layers=0 to 
layers=1...layers=7.

Trying to access the base WMS URL

http://gis.rileycountyks.gov/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?

with a standard WMS client like QGIS will cause problems because they 
have not configured their server properly; if you want to do that you 
will have to add the line

65.71.160.130 gisweb

do your /etc/hosts or wherever the DNS override resides on your OS (or 
phone up your friends at the county GIS dept and tell them to replace 
"gisweb:80" by "gis.rileycountyks.gov" in the GetCapabilities response).

Bye
Frederik

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