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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">No worries at all! <br>
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      I just need to figure out why it stopped working. <br>
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      Randy<br>
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Randal Hale, GISP
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
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      On 03/13/2014 01:55 PM, Lauri Kajan wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi Randy,
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        <div>I'm really sorry and little embarrassed for my previous
          post.</div>
        <div>You sure noticed that I don't have much knowledge in arcgis
          rest services and especially in using those with gdal.</div>
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        <div>In this case that json isn't a vector data. It is actually
          a description of a raster service and therefore should be
          accetable for gdal. This was totally my mistake.</div>
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        <div>-Lauri</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Alex
          Mandel <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com" target="_blank">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I wouldn't
            get on his case too hard he's following:<br>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Arcgis_rest"
              target="_blank">http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Arcgis_rest</a><br>
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            There's probably some clues in:<br>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/index.html#/The_ArcGIS_REST_API/02r300000054000000/"
              target="_blank">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/index.html#/The_ArcGIS_REST_API/02r300000054000000/</a><br>
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            I think other workarounds could be to pull the layers in the
            OpenLayers<br>
            plugin.<br>
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            Thanks,<br>
            Alex<br>
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                On 03/13/2014 09:50 AM, Lauri Kajan wrote:<br>
                > Hi Randy,<br>
                ><br>
                > You are requesting json format from arcgisonline.
                That is a vector format<br>
                > and you are trying to use it as a raster image.<br>
                > Secondly you are trying to translate that into WMS
                with gdal_translate.<br>
                > Gdal supports WMS-reading only, not creation (<br>
                > <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://gdal.org/formats_list.html"
                  target="_blank">http://gdal.org/formats_list.html</a>).<br>
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                > I recommend for you some introduction to GIS and
                raster and vector formats.<br>
                > <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/gentle_gis_introduction/index.html"
                  target="_blank">http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/gentle_gis_introduction/index.html</a><br>
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                > Regards,<br>
                ><br>
                > Lauri<br>
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                > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Randal Hale <<br>
                > <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:rjhale@northrivergeographic.com">rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</a>>
                wrote:<br>
                ><br>
                >> So I figured I would start here and work my way
                out...or up. Sorry for the<br>
                >> cross posting. I'm hitting a little bit of
                everything on this one. Same<br>
                >> action - different results (sorta). This is all
                of my attempts at adding a<br>
                >> REST Service from ArcGISOnline to QGIS (using
                GDAL in some cases).<br>
                >><br>
                >> On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS gdal 1.10<br>
                >> This command: gdal_translate "<a
                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://server.arcgisonline" target="_blank">http://server.arcgisonline</a>.<br>
                >>
                com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true"<br>
                >> ESRITopographicLayer.xml -of WMS<br>
                >> Gives me a segmentation fault<br>
                >><br>
                >> On windows 7 OSGEO4w 32 bit installer gdal
                1.10.1<br>
                >> This command: gdal_translate "<a
                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://server.arcgisonline" target="_blank">http://server.arcgisonline</a>.<br>
                >>
                com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true"<br>
                >> ESRITopographicLayer.xml -of WMS<br>
                >> Gives me:<br>
                >> ERROR 4: `/vsimem/http_1/file.dat' not
                recognised as a supported file<br>
                >> format.<br>
                >> ERROR 4: `/tmp/file.dat' not recognised as a
                supported file format.<br>
                >> GDALOpen failed - 4<br>
                >><br>
                >> In QGIS 2.2  On windows (OSGEo4W installer)
                python console:<br>
                >> qgis.utils.iface.addRasterLayer("<a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://server"
                  target="_blank">http://server</a>.<br>
                >> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/"
                  target="_blank">arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/</a><br>
                >> MapServer?f=json&pretty=true","raster")<br>
                >> Gives me an error saying /tmp/file.dat is not a
                recognized format.<br>
                >><br>
                >> On Ubuntu 12.04 QGIS 2.2 Python Console<br>
                >> qgis.utils.iface.addRasterLayer("<a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://server"
                  target="_blank">http://server</a>.<br>
                >> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/"
                  target="_blank">arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/</a><br>
                >> MapServer?f=json&pretty=true","raster")<br>
                >> Crashes QGIS.<br>
                >><br>
                >> Once again my apologies for cross posting. I
                *think* it's all related. I<br>
                >> think.<br>
                >><br>
                >> Randy<br>
                >><br>
                >> --<br>
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                >> Randal Hale, GISP<br>
                >> North River Geographic Systems, Inc<br>
                >> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://www.northrivergeographic.com"
                  target="_blank">http://www.northrivergeographic.com</a><br>
                >> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="tel:423.653.3611" value="+14236533611">423.653.3611</a>
                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:rjhale@northrivergeographic.com">rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</a><br>
                >> twitter:rjhale<br>
                >> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://about.me/rjhale" target="_blank">http://about.me/rjhale</a><br>
                >><br>
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