[mapguide-users] Re: accessing REST server

[Andrew DeMerchant]

I should mention that I can also get at their data usig ArcMap or an 
ArcGIS addon for AutoCAD....but I don't suppose there's a way to get 
ArcGIS Server data right into Mapguide....


On 12/03/21 9:04 AM, Andrew DeMerchant wrote:
> Right - it's still in beta, so maybe they'll add some other 
> standards...but right now, no such luck.
>
> I've had success in getting these layers to show up in Quantum GIS, 
> which I'm assuming is using that reader/writer. To get the data in 
> there, I just create a new vector layer and paste in the url for the 
> path. When it comes in, it names the layer OGRGeoJSON. I'm sure that 
> what's happening is it's downloading the json and then rendering that, 
> rather than streaming it. I could live with that in Mapguide, if I had 
> to...most of the data is pretty static.
>
> I've tried the OGR FDO in Maestro, but no success yet. I've tried 
> setting the datasource value to my url - no luck. I've tried adding 
> the url as my resource data file...no luck.
>
> I'd like to do this without the need for extra coding, so unless 
> there's an FDO that can handle this, or some way to trick one of them 
> into working, I'll have to wait and see if they get other formats later.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 12/03/21 3:01 AM, Jason Birch wrote:
>> It's a public provincial government server and they're providing a 
>> proprietary REST format, but not open standard WMS or WFS when it's 
>> fully supported by the server software they're using?  Yikes.
>>
>> I've never tried this myself, but if you don't need live data in your 
>> MapGuide server and have access to FME, you may be able to import it 
>> using their ESRIJSON reader/writer: 
>> http://docs.safe.com/fme/reader_writerPDF/esrijson.pdf
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> On 20 March 2012 12:56, Andrew DeMerchant wrote:
>>
>>     That's the idea, yes. But it's not my server that's outputting
>>     that Rest data, so I don't have the option of WMS or WFS...since
>>     the ArcGIS server's not my server, I've got to work with what
>>     they provide. Is there any way to get json data into Mapguide? Is
>>     there an FDO that would do that? If I needed to use Fusion, I
>>     would...
>>
>>
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