On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Josh Doe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Randal Hale > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I know there's probably a better list to send this to... > >> > >> The county (Hamilton County, TN) I reside in is pumping out their 2010 > >> Imagery over a REST "Service" or whatever I'm supposed to call it. I can > >> completely use this in Arcmap. Can I use this in Merkaartor or JOSM? So > far > >> I have found a few other messages from people with the same problem > digging > >> around on the intertubes - but no answer. It may be right in front of me > and > >> I'm just > > > > You're probably talking about ArcGIS's REST interface. It's basically a > > "simplified" or RESTful WMS service. > > There is no way to access the ArcGIS REST interface directly from JOSM at > > this point. There might be a way to hack it with the undocumented Imagery > > keywords, but what I've been doing is adding it to the > tile.osm.osuosl.org > > tile server [0] as a tile proxy source and using it from there. > > If you give me the REST API's URL I can add that relatively quickly and > spit > > back a tile URL you can add to JOSM or Potlatch. > > Sounds like the same interface that Virginia uses for their VBMP > orthoimagery. Just so others know, if the projection offered by the > ArcGIS server isn't OSM-style (EPSG:3857, EPSG:900913, etc), and the > Export Map functionality isn't backed by raw imagery (i.e. it's just > tiled at the given projection, such as one of the state plane > systems), then it's likely Ian's method won't work. Unfortunately this > is the case with Virginia's server.
The tiles are working for the imagery in question here. I don't think we ever figured out what was going on with the Virginia imagery that the export functionality wasn't working. >
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