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Using OpenLayers with ArcGIS Server REST API

Using OpenLayers with ArcGIS Server REST API

Talk from 2009 Esri Developer Summit

James Fee

March 25, 2009
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  1. Using OpenLayers with ArcGIS Server REST API James Fee RSP

    Architects Blog: spatiallyadjusted.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ jamesfee Twitter: cageyjames
  2. What is OpenLayers? •  JavaScript Library •  No server-side dependencies

    •  Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community
  3. Understanding OpenLayers “OpenLayers is not designed to be usable 'out

    of the box'. It is a library designed to help you build applications, so it's your job as an OpenLayers user to build the box.” -Christopher Schmidt on OpenLayers Users List
  4. ArcGIS Server and OpenLayers •  At version 2.8, ArcGIS REST

    API support exists in OpenLayers – ArcGIS Dynamic Maps – ArcGIS Tiled Maps – Query •  Other functionality is outside the trunk – Look for Sandbox tools that you can patch OpenLayers with.
  5. Getting Started with ArcGIS Server and OpenLayers Get OpenLayers via

    SVN svn checkout http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/ openlayers/
  6. Getting Started with ArcGIS Server and OpenLayers Download and Install

    OL User august's AGSControl http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/august/documentation/ agsControl_instructions.pdf
  7. Getting Started with ArcGIS Server and OpenLayers Patch AgsControl.js Download

    the patch, 'AgsControl.patch' from mkgeomatics Test Functionality Using Unit Tests (Optional) Download Unit Tests http://trac.openlayers.org/browser/sandbox/august/ openlayers/openlayers-2.6/tests/Control?rev=7801
  8. Now What? •  Get involved with the OpenLayers community • 

    OpenLayers ArcGIS REST API users need to think strategically •  ESRI hosting ArcGIS OpenLayers API on their own servers
  9. Contact James Fee – RSP Architects [email protected] http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com twitter: cageyjames

    Matt Kenny [email protected] http://www.mkgeomatics.com/ Matt Priour – Kestrel Computing [email protected] http://priour.wordpress.com/