[Talk-us] REST Services

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Randal Hale
<rjhale at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
> I know there's probably a better list to send this to...
>
> The county (Hamilton County, TN) I reside in is pumping out their 2010
> Imagery over a REST "Service" or whatever I'm supposed to call it. I can
> completely use this in Arcmap. Can I use this in Merkaartor or JOSM? So far
> I have found a few other messages from people with the same problem digging
> around on the intertubes - but no answer. It may be right in front of me and
> I'm just not seeing it.

REST isn't an API but a type of API; an API pattern.

The OSM 0.6 API is RESTful, for example.

To use an API, developers need access to the API documentation, just
saying it's RESTful isn't enough.

So is this documentation available somewhere?

- Serge