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I was able to use the ESRI base tiles as an OpenLayers.XYZ layer
with no modifications.<br>
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Mike<br>
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On 25/03/2011 10:24 AM, Jeff Dege wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">ESRI has published a standard for accessing
map data via REST webservices:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisserver/archive/2010/09/07/The-GeoServices-REST-Specification_3A00_-An-open-standard-for-GIS-Web-services.aspx">http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisserver/archive/2010/09/07/The-GeoServices-REST-Specification_3A00_-An-open-standard-for-GIS-Web-services.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have made a good deal of map data
available for non-commercial purposes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services">http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This includes a reasonably current world
street landbase:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer">http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So now the questions: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How can I most easily display this landbase
as a layer in OpenLayers?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Does OpenLayers support the GeoServices
REST specification? Is there any work in progress to do so?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any idea how much work would be involved to
add such support to OpenLayers?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If I cannot access GeoServices REST data
from OpenLayers, does anyone know of an Open Source WMS/WFS
server that does/will support GeoServices REST data?<o:p></o:p></p>
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