Once again, Chris Tapley has been busy, and has developed some simple ways to add IWS data to ArcGIS based websites.
The integration is in two parts:
- ArcGIS WebADF ImageX/OTDF DataSource
- ECWP and ImageX/OTDF layers for the ArcGIS REST JavaScript API
The “ArcGIS WebADF ImageX/OTDF DataSource” requires the following to be installed on the machine:
- ArcGIS Server 9.3 .NET edition
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
It is possible to just deploy the Web Mapping Application to an ArcGIS server machine without VS2005 installed, but for development purposes VS2005 needs to be there.
There is a section in the help documentation outlining how to add an ImageX/OTDF datasource to a Web Mapping Application.
The “ECWP and ImageX/OTDF layers for the ArcGIS JavaScript API” requires the following to be installed on the machine:
- Image Web Server 2009 and above
There are examples on how to use the API within the package, and it is supposed to be as seamless as possible to add ECWP/ImageX/OTDF layers to the ArcGIS JavaScript API. Anything that the ArcGIS Server layers can do, you can do with these additional IWS layers.
We did notice some misgivings which the samples address. The main issue is that ESRI tiled layers have set zoom levels and you cannot add layers with different zoom resolutions without problems, so the ability to set custom levels to IWS layers has been added so that they can work with any tiled layer.
You can download the integration package:
Image Web Server and ArcGIS Integration
We would love to hear how you get on, so please comment.