Can ArcIMS consume WMS/WFS services?

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At an ESRI user conference in Calgary I cornered a ESRI guy from
Redlands and asked him about more support for WMS with ArcIMS and he
indicated that WMS was just a fad and as such they wouldn't invest
time/effort until it was proven to be anything more then a fad.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Andrew Haigh
Sent: September 1, 2004 12:04 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Can ArcIMS consume WMS/WFS services?


Yeah, it's a bit of a joke!

None of the Arc version 9 products support WMS / WFS / WCS.

Andrew



On 1 Sep 2004, at 14:25, Judd, Chris wrote:

> Paul,
>
> You're right.  Here is the response from my ESRI support request.
>
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> In answer to your question about whether ArcIMS accepts WMS services
> as an input the answer is that it can not.  This is a feature that
> others have
> expressed interest in and the request does have a tracking id of
> CQ00239065.
> The problem is that it does require pretty significant work to the
> spatial
> server and some re-architecting of the spatial server.  Right now work
> isn't
> being undertaken, but it isn't off the radar either.
>
>         I have added your interest for this functionality to the
> request.
>
>         One approach is to use cascading style sheets in your web
> application to layer two WMS output images from different sources on
> top of one another
> with the top one having a transparent background.
>
>         Another approach is that ArcMap Server does serve up data from

> other IMS servers (though not WMS, not even with the interoperability
> extension).
> So if the other site you want to serve up is an ArcIMS site you may be
> able
> to consume their service through ArcMap Server.
>
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> Bummer.
>
> Chris
>
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> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:10 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Can ArcIMS consume WMS/WFS
services?
>
>
> Probably a question best directed to an ESRI representative. My best
> knowledge is that currently the answer is "no", ArcIMS can only
> "cascade" against ArcMap web services. Paul
>
> On Tuesday, August 31, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Judd, Chris wrote:
>
>> List folks,
>>
>> We are interested in ArcIMS (we are currently running version 4.0.1)
>> consuming a WMS/WFS compliant data service.  We know that ArcIMS can
>> serve WMS/WFS compliant data services, but can it consume it?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Chris Judd
>> Florida Department of Environmental Protection
>>
>       Paul Ramsey
>       Refractions Research
>       Email: pramsey at refractions.net
>       Phone: (250) 885-0632
>