[Talk-us] REST Services

[Ian Dees]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:32 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
> >
> > You're probably talking about ArcGIS's REST interface. It's basically a
> > "simplified" or RESTful WMS service.
> > There is no way to access the ArcGIS REST interface directly from JOSM at
> > this point. There might be a way to hack it with the undocumented Imagery
> > keywords, but what I've been doing is adding it to the
> tile.osm.osuosl.org
> > tile server [0] as a tile proxy source and using it from there.
> > If you give me the REST API's URL I can add that relatively quickly and
> spit
> > back a tile URL you can add to JOSM or Potlatch.
>
> Sounds like the same interface that Virginia uses for their VBMP
> orthoimagery. Just so others know, if the projection offered by the
> ArcGIS server isn't OSM-style (EPSG:3857, EPSG:900913, etc), and the
> Export Map functionality isn't backed by raw imagery (i.e. it's just
> tiled at the given projection, such as one of the state plane
> systems), then it's likely Ian's method won't work. Unfortunately this
> is the case with Virginia's server.


The tiles are working for the imagery in question here. I don't think we
ever figured out what was going on with the Virginia imagery that the export
functionality wasn't working.

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