Can ArcIMS 9.0 or any ArcGIS products consume WMS or WFS web ser vices?

[Randy James]

Could be a ArcGis thing not a wms connectin one, i've had problems printing some
point layers when the symbol i used was really complex, and they crashed the
print driver.


--- Ken Lord <kenlord at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Hi Regina, and others,
>
> Yes, ArcGIS Version 9, service pack 2 will accept wms connections, and
> it does so in a surprisingly user-friendly way.
>
> BUT
>
> I have tried and tried, and have never been able to print any ArcGIS
> map containing a WMS layer successfully. All non-WMS layers will print
> fine, but the WMS layers are missing, as if when the map regenerates
> for printing, no time is given to allow the WMS source to re-send it's
> part of the map.
>
> Also, any type of exporting the map ... to JPG, to PDF etc. will have
> the same problem.
>
> So unless someone knows what I'm doing wrong, ArcGIS will display WMS,
> but not print or export WMS, making it fairly useless.
>
> Cheers,
> Ken Lord
> Vancouver BC
>
>
> On 4/26/05, David Bitner <osgis.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In ArcGIS Version 9, WMS capabilities came with Service Pack 2.
> >
> > On 4/26/05, Till Adams <adams at terrestris.de> wrote:
> > > Obe, Regina DND\MIS wrote:
> > >
> > > > I found the below thread in the mapserv archives that stated this was
> > > > not possible back then, but I was wondering if this is the same case
> > > > with the ArcGIS 9.0 products.
> > > >
> > > > http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0409&L=mapserver-users&P=R1058&I=-3
> > > >
> <http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0409&L=mapserver-users&P=R1058&I=-3>
> > > >
> > > > I was trying to test out my Mapserver WMS in ArcIMS or ArcMap.
> > > >
> > > > I looked at ArcIMS 9.0 and ArcMap  and I couldn't figure out any way
> > > > to use OGC WMS servers, it seemed to only accept ArcIMS services.
> > > > I thrilled to see I could do it from MapInfo though simply by pointing
> > > > at my WMS URL.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Regina
> > >
> > > Dear Regina,
> > >
> > > for ArcGIs 8.x you must get the ArcGIS-WMS extension (freeware) from
> > > Sicad (www.sicad.de). In ArcGIs v9 a lot of funcionality is missing, but
> > > you may load wms directly .... I never tried this ;-)
> > >
> > > Greetings, Till
> > >
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> > >
>

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