[Talk-us] REST Services

[Jim McAndrew]

Awesome work on this Ian!
Randy, looks like you're going to have to find something else to complain
about.

Bats?

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Randal Hale <
rjhale at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:

>  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 Trainerhttp://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> 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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