[OpenLayers-Users] how to work with ArcGis basemaps

[JK Chen]

Ya,  I tried that object.  But what I have in question is: can that class be used to bring in imagery base maps from ArcGis? 

If yes, what are the URL link? 

I am not talking about data service.

This is the data service url that I tried, "http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Specialty/ESRI_StateCityHighway_USA/MapServer/export"
It worked, but again, my intension is to use imagery base map from ArcGIS, not bing map, not google map, but ArGIS imagery maps, I mean any imagery base maps served by ArcGIS.

Thanks.

JK

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Greenwood [mailto:richard.greenwood at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:32 AM
To: JK Chen
Cc: users at openlayers.org
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] how to work with ArcGis basemaps

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:36 AM, jk <jk.chen at sdl.usu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm giving a evaluation task to find out if our map client 
> (implemented in
> OL) can work with ArcGIS?
> So I have two questions to answer, and I want to seek inputs from this 
> thread. Here you go.
>
> Two questions,
>
> 1. how to work with ArcGis basemaps? Are they WMS?
>
> 2. how to work with reqeusts with this forms, ie, tile/././.   an 
> example shown here,
> http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/Ma
> pServer/tile/7/55/112
>
> 3. I saw a example link about ArcGiS cashed map. Is that the same as 1?
>
> Thanks.
>
> JK

I'm not an ArcGIS guy but I was recently faced with the same request and I found that the OL layer type  "OpenLayers.Layer.ArcGIS93Rest"
worked flawlessly. It was very easy to switch from a MapServer source to an ArcGIS source. It kind of reaffirmed why using OpenLayers is so sweet.

Rich

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