Can ArcIMS 9.0 or any ArcGIS products consume WMS or WFS web ser vices?

[Ken Lord]

Hi Regina, and others,

Yes, ArcGIS Version 9, service pack 2 will accept wms connections, and
it does so in a surprisingly user-friendly way.

BUT

I have tried and tried, and have never been able to print any ArcGIS
map containing a WMS layer successfully. All non-WMS layers will print
fine, but the WMS layers are missing, as if when the map regenerates
for printing, no time is given to allow the WMS source to re-send it's
part of the map.

Also, any type of exporting the map ... to JPG, to PDF etc. will have
the same problem.

So unless someone knows what I'm doing wrong, ArcGIS will display WMS,
but not print or export WMS, making it fairly useless.

Cheers,
Ken Lord
Vancouver BC


On 4/26/05, David Bitner <osgis.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> In ArcGIS Version 9, WMS capabilities came with Service Pack 2.
> 
> On 4/26/05, Till Adams <adams at terrestris.de> wrote:
> > Obe, Regina DND\MIS wrote:
> >
> > > I found the below thread in the mapserv archives that stated this was
> > > not possible back then, but I was wondering if this is the same case
> > > with the ArcGIS 9.0 products.
> > >
> > > http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0409&L=mapserver-users&P=R1058&I=-3
> > > <http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0409&L=mapserver-users&P=R1058&I=-3>
> > >
> > > I was trying to test out my Mapserver WMS in ArcIMS or ArcMap.
> > >
> > > I looked at ArcIMS 9.0 and ArcMap  and I couldn't figure out any way
> > > to use OGC WMS servers, it seemed to only accept ArcIMS services.
> > > I thrilled to see I could do it from MapInfo though simply by pointing
> > > at my WMS URL.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Regina
> >
> > Dear Regina,
> >
> > for ArcGIs 8.x you must get the ArcGIS-WMS extension (freeware) from
> > Sicad (www.sicad.de). In ArcGIs v9 a lot of funcionality is missing, but
> > you may load wms directly .... I never tried this ;-)
> >
> > Greetings, Till
> >
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