[Mapserver-users] Mapserver WMS as server to ArcIMS service

[Ed McNierney]

Paul -

You are exactly correct - I tried to answer in the middle of a hurried
afternoon, and suffered a serious brain-short.  My answer is exactly
backwards!

When we first implemented WMS services we were frustrated by the
inability of ArcIMS customers to use them at all.

Back to Drew's original question, Paul's Perl/MapScript ArcIMS code will
do something like what you want, and we're just about ready to post an
updated PHP/MapScript version of the same.  Neither one is *exactly*
what you ask for, in that they're both MapScript applications that are
completely independent of WMS - they're better described as
MapServer-based ArcIMS interface-compatible image servers.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
Phone: (978) 251-4242  Fax: (978) 251-1396
ed at topozone.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at refractions.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:36 PM
To: Ed McNierney
Cc: Simpson, Andrew; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Mapserver WMS as server to ArcIMS service

Is this correct? I was of the understanding that the ArcIMS WMS 
connector exposes the ArcIMS data as a WMS server. So if you have set up

the WMS connector on ArcIMS you can use a WMS client to view the ArcIMS 
data. In fact, I have seen it in action in the government here, and have

cascaded a mapserver service onto an ArcIMS server which used the WMS 
connector.

It is the opposite direction, the ArcIMS server *pulling* data from a 
WMS server, which I whink it impossible... yes?

P.

Ed McNierney wrote:
> Drew -
>  
> The ArcIMS "OGC Connector" allows an ArcIMS server to connect to WMS 
> layers served by OGC-compliant servers.  It's a one-way pipe (we call
it 
> the "OGC Diode") because it does NOT permit WMS clients to read data 
> from ArcIMS servers.  But it sounds like this is something your ArcIMS

> partners should already be able to do.
>  
>     - Ed
> 
> Ed McNierney
> President and Chief Mapmaker
> TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
> 73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
> North Chelmsford, MA  01863
> ed at topozone.com
> (978) 251-4242
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* Simpson, Andrew [mailto:Andrew.Simpson at ssc.nasa.gov]
>     *Sent:* Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:18 PM
>     *To:* 'mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu'
>     *Subject:* [Mapserver-users] Mapserver WMS as server to ArcIMS
service
> 
>     Good Afternoon,
>      
>     Has anyone had any success using Mapserver WMS as a source for an
>     ArcIMS service?  Would like to share some raster data with an
>     offsite group that only speaks ArcIMS.
>      
>     Used the IMS Emulator to connect with ArcMap and ArcCatalog
>
(http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0110/msg00298.
html),
>     which worked very well.
>      
>     Sorry for the slightly off topic question.
>      
>     Thanks for any info,
>      
>     Drew.


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