[Talk-us] REST Services

[Randal Hale]

http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/geoservices-rest-spec.pdf

This was on my list to learn about....I guess I can start marking this 
off the list. I get a feeling I'm about to learn.....

I can use ESRI's OSMEditor to take advantage of this new found image 
goodness....I prefer JOSM for all my editing though...

Randy



On 10/23/2011 9:54 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> 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