[OpenLayers-Users] reason why there needs to be ArcIMS support in OpenLayers

[Mike Quentel]

Thank you for the advice.

In a few years, the old (3.x - 9.x) ArcIMS server software will likely become obsolete.  ESRI are already pushing ArcGIS Server as their flagship server-side GIS/web mapping software.  I do not know if ArcXML will continue to be a supported means of communicating with the server.

But, as happened with other older versions of ESRI software (like ArcView 3.x, ARC/INFO, etc), there will be plenty of organisations using the older ArcIMS software for a good number of years.  It has commanded popularity with very many government sites and corporate sites.  So, I think ArcIMS support and general ArcXML support in OL would be very well-received.  You could even publish it at the ESRI web site for sharing software and scripts: http://arcscripts.esri.com/  I bet if you did this, OL would become even more popular.  

OL greatly impresses me, and I have been using ESRI software for over a decade.

Mike Quentel

----- Original Message ----
From: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
To: Duarte Carreira <DCarreira at edia.pt>
Cc: users at openlayers.org
Sent: Friday, 4 May, 2007 8:57:05 AM
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] reason why there needs to be ArcIMS support in OpenLayers

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:32:05PM +0100, Duarte Carreira wrote:
> But nothing would beat OL native support of ArcIMS layers.

The possibly significant cost of doing two round trips from the browser
for each request might actually make that untrue. (No way to know without
testing, but possible.) I'm not against it for that reason -- it's
always been on my plate to implement an ArcXML layer (There's even a
ticket for it in trac), but it's something to be aware of. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta
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