[Talk-us] Getting data from ArcIMS servers

[Toby Murray]

Oh that is awesome! The images are perfectly aligned with my GPS
traces and as a special bonus, they seem to have been taken during the
winter as there is no foliage on trees to obscure things like there is
in the Yahoo imagery of my area. I can totally count parking spaces
and even see the striping in the roads! I currently don't have
explicit permission to use layers other than the imagery for mapping
in OSM but I will have to play with this and see what's there.

It might be a good idea to create a wiki page about ArcIMS servers
that contains some of this information. I might look at doing it once
I play with it some more...

As for the configuration problems, that's not going to change until
they hire a new director. I pointed out some simple link errors on
their site and got a "yeah... we're not going to touch it" response.

Thank you!
Toby


On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> 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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