[Talk-us] REST Services

[Randal Hale]

Wiki page updated.......
Imagery displayed in JOSM
...and I can no longer complain "If I only had the newest imagery....."

Randal Hale, GISP
North River Geographic Systems, Inc.
ESRI Business Partner and Certified Trainer
http://www.northrivergeographic.com
423.653.3611 rjhale at northrivergeographic.com


On 10/23/2011 3:58 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com 
> <mailto:josh at joshdoe.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ian.dees at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Randal Hale
>     > <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
>     <mailto: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 <http://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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