[Qgis-developer] Problem with GDAL_translate. REST Services, QGIS

[Randal Hale]

No worries at all!

I just need to figure out why it stopped working.

Randy

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Randal Hale, GISP
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
http://www.northrivergeographic.com
423.653.3611 rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
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On 03/13/2014 01:55 PM, Lauri Kajan wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> I'm really sorry and little embarrassed for my previous post.
> You sure noticed that I don't have much knowledge in arcgis rest 
> services and especially in using those with gdal.
>
> In this case that json isn't a vector data. It is actually a 
> description of a raster service and therefore should be accetable for 
> gdal. This was totally my mistake.
>
>
> -Lauri
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Alex Mandel 
> <tech_dev at wildintellect.com <mailto:tech_dev at wildintellect.com>> wrote:
>
>     I wouldn't get on his case too hard he's following:
>     http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Arcgis_rest
>
>     There's probably some clues in:
>     http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/index.html#/The_ArcGIS_REST_API/02r300000054000000/
>
>     I think other workarounds could be to pull the layers in the
>     OpenLayers
>     plugin.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Alex
>
>     On 03/13/2014 09:50 AM, Lauri Kajan wrote:
>     > Hi Randy,
>     >
>     > You are requesting json format from arcgisonline. That is a
>     vector format
>     > and you are trying to use it as a raster image.
>     > Secondly you are trying to translate that into WMS with
>     gdal_translate.
>     > Gdal supports WMS-reading only, not creation (
>     > http://gdal.org/formats_list.html).
>     >
>     > I recommend for you some introduction to GIS and raster and
>     vector formats.
>     > http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/gentle_gis_introduction/index.html
>     >
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>     > Lauri
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Randal Hale <
>     > rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
>     <mailto:rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> So I figured I would start here and work my way out...or up.
>     Sorry for the
>     >> cross posting. I'm hitting a little bit of everything on this
>     one. Same
>     >> action - different results (sorta). This is all of my attempts
>     at adding a
>     >> REST Service from ArcGISOnline to QGIS (using GDAL in some cases).
>     >>
>     >> On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS gdal 1.10
>     >> This command: gdal_translate "http://server.arcgisonline.
>     >>
>     com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true"
>     >> ESRITopographicLayer.xml -of WMS
>     >> Gives me a segmentation fault
>     >>
>     >> On windows 7 OSGEO4w 32 bit installer gdal 1.10.1
>     >> This command: gdal_translate "http://server.arcgisonline.
>     >>
>     com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true"
>     >> ESRITopographicLayer.xml -of WMS
>     >> Gives me:
>     >> ERROR 4: `/vsimem/http_1/file.dat' not recognised as a
>     supported file
>     >> format.
>     >> ERROR 4: `/tmp/file.dat' not recognised as a supported file format.
>     >> GDALOpen failed - 4
>     >>
>     >> In QGIS 2.2  On windows (OSGEo4W installer) python console:
>     >> qgis.utils.iface.addRasterLayer("http://server.
>     >> arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/
>     <http://arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/>
>     >> MapServer?f=json&pretty=true","raster")
>     >> Gives me an error saying /tmp/file.dat is not a recognized format.
>     >>
>     >> On Ubuntu 12.04 QGIS 2.2 Python Console
>     >> qgis.utils.iface.addRasterLayer("http://server.
>     >> arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/
>     <http://arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/>
>     >> MapServer?f=json&pretty=true","raster")
>     >> Crashes QGIS.
>     >>
>     >> Once again my apologies for cross posting. I *think* it's all
>     related. I
>     >> think.
>     >>
>     >> Randy
>     >>
>     >> --
>     >> -----------------
>     >> Randal Hale, GISP
>     >> North River Geographic Systems, Inc
>     >> http://www.northrivergeographic.com
>     >> 423.653.3611 <tel:423.653.3611> rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
>     <mailto:rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
>     >> twitter:rjhale
>     >> http://about.me/rjhale
>     >>
>
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