Folks, I think this datastore is now stable enough for people to have a go at it. (Please use the v0.2.2 release from https://github.com/lmoran/arcgis-rest.)
The ArcGIS ReST API is huge, and we were interested only in getting data with bounding box queries, hence the datastore is very limited in scope. More specifically, only the FeatureServer services on either ArcGIS Online (Open Data) or ArcGIS Server FeatureServers are covered so far. In addition, there are a few issues: 1) The API returns "enriched" GeoJSON, hence JSON fragments that do not conform to GeoJSON are discarded. (The datastore own GeoJSON streaming parser is based on Gson). 2) The query filter is ignored, only the request bbox is used to query the API. 3) Since a different call for every dataset in an API endpoint (either OpenData or FeatureServer) has to be performed, endpoints with many datasets can take a long time to load. (By the way ESRI seem to be throttling back frequent requests -presumably to fend off DDOS attacks.) Please, have a go and tell us how to improve it. Cheers, Luca Morandini Data Architect - AURIN project Melbourne eResearch Group Department of Computing and Information Systems Room 3.08. Level 3, Doug McDonell Building, Parkville Campus University of Melbourne Tel. +61 03 903 58 380 Skype: lmorandini LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lmorandini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ GeoTools-GT2-Users mailing list GeoTools-GT2-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
