[OpenLayers-Users] Newbie: accessing Arcweb data

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Steward,

what's your location? If you need a map of europe, I know my former 
employer Geodan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands has some services:
www.geoserver.nl (looks that it's only dutch...), but the eurostreets 
example:
http://www.geoserver.nl/geoserver/voorbeelden/eurostreets_voorbeeld.png

Richard

Stewart Nimmo wrote:
> Chris , Richard:
> 
> Thanks for the info. It has confirmed my thoughts and I have better
> understanding now. The Arcweb services layer class may be something we look
> at. We also have an alternate data service that maybe accessible via the
> KaMap class.
> 
> Our challenge is accessing a street data source and since we are a small
> commercial operation, the free map data services can not apply to us. The
> Arcwebservices is nice that is a low dollar commettment to get operational,
> based transaction price model. The other map services we are looking at is
> Pushpin, similarly transaction based pricing model.
> 
> If anyone knows of other transaction based maps services I am interested in
> hearing about them.
> 
> regards
> sfn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at metacarta.com]
> Sent: November 6, 2007 7:18 AM
> To: Richard Duivenvoorde
> Cc: snimmo at orbis-directions.com; users at openlayers.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie: accessing Arcweb data
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:42:18PM +0100, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
>> Hi Stewart,
>> I'm not familiar with Arcwebservices, what kind of url's are you talking
>> about? Can you give an example?
>>
>> Openlayers implements different kind of 'layers' for different kinds of
>> datasources. Some examples of current datasources: OGC-WMS, OGC-WFS,
>> Minnesota Mapserver, TMS, Google Maps, Virtual Earth, GML, KML, geoRSS
>> etc etc.
> 
> There's also the poorly tested ArcWebServices layer in a sandbox:
> 
> http://svn.openlayers.org/sandbox/crschmidt/arcwebservices/lib/OpenLayers/La
> yer/ArcWebServices.js
> 
> Which is probably the kind of thing the poster is looking for, but is
> not yet complete enough to use. (Patches, feed back, tests,
> improvements, etc. welcome. It would probably need a fair amount of work.)
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
> 
> 
>