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

[Simpson, Andrew]

That was the same conclusion we came to; hard to believe there is not a
mechanism to grab data from a WMS in an ArcIMS service.  Isn't the 
geography network WMS?  I don't think it even supports cascading
ArcIMS servers.

Thanks very much for the responses,
Drew.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca
[mailto:Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:10 PM
To: pramsey at refractions.net; ed at topozone.com
Cc: Andrew.Simpson at ssc.nasa.gov; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] Mapserver WMS as server to ArcIMS service


Yup, last I checked that was my understanding as well ... ArcIMS can only
SERVE WMS layers, but cannot ingest them, and therefore cannot cascade WMS
ones.

I've successfully used the IMS emulator to connect my ArcMap/ArcCatalog to a
MapServer service. If, however you mean you want a given ArcIMS server to
cascade layers provided by the IMS emulator (Thinking it's another ArcIMS
server), I think that's untested so far.  I would suspect the emulator is
not evolved or complete enough to support that functionality.  If you really
want to you could try to track the requests your IMS emulator gets from your
partner's ArcIMS, read the XML (AXL), and try to figure out where it's not
working.  The IMS emulator is Perl, so it's not completely mind-bending ...
You should be able to make sense of it all, maybe even make the necessary
improvements if it's worth it to you (And feed them back to Refractions :)

My .02$ ... Hope this helps!

J.F.

-----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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