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Practical Experiences With ArcGIS Server

<Cool Tagline Here>Presented By:Jeremy Holt, GIS Consultant

11.03.2010

Here’s What I’ll Talk About:

An Overview:•ArcGIS Server in Workflow – “What it does well and how we use it”

•Migrating From ArcIMS to ArcGIS Server (9.3.1)

•Consuming WMS Services From ArcGIS Server

•Getting some REST

•A little bit about Configuration and Deployment

•Lessons Learned

ArcGIS Server Overview

Currently Upgrading Existing ArcIMS Sites to ArcGIS Server

Plenty of Mapservices to Migrate

Multi-Machine Deployment

Currently Upgrading Existing ArcIMS Sites to ArcGIS Server

Plenty of Mapservices to Migrate

Multi-Machine Deployment

What It Does Well

Easy to Publish and Manage Mapservices

MSD Optimization

Dynamic Map Rendering

Easy to Publish and Manage Mapservices

MSD Optimization

Dynamic Map Rendering

How We Utilize It

Migration From ArcIMS

AXL/MXD Differences

•Font size & line widths

•Seems like you gotta bump it down about 25%

•Definition queries need to be rebuilt, not pasted

•"STR_CLASS" = 'US HWY‘

•<SPATIALQUERY where="STR_CLASS = &apos;US HWY&apos;" />

•Duplicate layers for scale/symbology changes

•<SCALEDEPENDENTRENDERER lower="1:300000">

Optimizing Services

Some MSD/WMS Workarounds

•All layers ON when published for ability to toggle on/off in WGX (or visible in WMS)

•Not dynamic. When you make a change to the MXD, you’ll need to re-save (overwrite) the MSD prior to seeing changes in the mapservice

•Symbology Categories (All other values)

•CAD as a datasource. Can serve in separate MXD based mapservice

A Bit On Going From 9.3.1 to 10

•Retain existing services, even after uninstall

•REST exposes more useful info, enhanced API

•Retain existing services, even after uninstall

•REST exposes more useful info, enhanced API

Consuming WMS Services

Wms capabilities

Request examples

Wms capabilities

Request examples

3rd Party Clients

•Openlayers

•Tilecache/mapproxy

REST!

Apache Lucene

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search.

• REST endpoint aware

• Dynamically reads layers/tables/attributes for indexing

• Allows for end user to pass parameter to application,

utilizing the REST API query service for indexing

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search.

• REST endpoint aware

• Dynamically reads layers/tables/attributes for indexing

• Allows for end user to pass parameter to application,

utilizing the REST API query service for indexing

Search Anything

Querying Against REST

•For offsite implementations

Troubleshooting/Lessons Learned

•Set your Min Instances to 0

•Increase your Image Size in Service config

•<MaxImageHeight>16384</MaxImageHeight>

•All layers turned on in MSD to see in WMS

Questions Anyone?

Thanks!Feel free to ask any questions or share

your own tips.

1-715-874-4397

1-888-WeDoGIS

Jeremy.Holt@adc4gis.com