[OpenLayers-Users] ArcGIS REST services

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi Jeff,

does this work for you?

http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/arcgiscache_ags.html

It's the second layer in the layer switcher.

Best regards,
Bart

> ESRI has published a standard for accessing map data via REST webservices:
>
> http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisserver/archive/2010/09/07/The-GeoServices-REST-Specification_3A00_-An-open-standard-for-GIS-Web-services.aspx
>
> They have made a good deal of map data available for non-commercial
> purposes:
>
> http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services
>
> This includes a reasonably current world street landbase:
>
> http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer
>
> So now the questions:
>
> How can I most easily display this landbase as a layer in OpenLayers?
>
> Does OpenLayers support the GeoServices REST specification?  Is there any
> work in progress to do so?
>
> Any idea how much work would be involved to add such support to
> OpenLayers?
>
> If I cannot access GeoServices REST data from OpenLayers, does anyone know
> of an Open Source WMS/WFS server that does/will support GeoServices REST
> data?
>
>
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