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A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over a network.

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Free download of Soviet topographic maps (also known as Genshtab maps)

In the past, http://poehali.org/maps/ offered a free-of-charge download of Soviet military topographic maps of many areas in the world. Those maps are in the public domain. Now, this site redirects to ...
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What do I need to create web based GIS application to show GTFS data

I need to create several GIS based application and embed them on a web page for professional development. I need a cost effective solution and don't have big budget. Any help in right direction and to ...
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ArcGIS for Server or its alternative?

I am trying to develop a GIS web application. I am using ArcGIS for desktop as the database. I need to use existing ArcGIS Restful services but also need to publish some new services. I think that ...
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Call Vehicle Routing Problem Service via REST - Problem with “time” attributes?

I am trying to get a Vehicle Routing Problem to work as a geoprocessing service on one of our servers. If I call the geoprocessing service via REST url and submit depots, orders and routes WITHOUT ...
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Adding imagery or world topo map from arcgisonline to map

I have an ESRI Javascript API application that uses a local Map Service with various feature layers. Now I need to add Imagery or top maps from ArcGIS online as base maps. I am trying the following. ...
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Webservices for GPS (Upload on DB and display it)

i'm doing an application where my users would be able to upload their gps tracks. My idea is to put their tracks on mysql database and display it on appropriate map. Question:How can i do that? My ...
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How to create a web app that will display data in unique urls for the end-user?

Can anyone provide insight on how a novice can construct a fairly rudimentary web app? I would like to send out unique URLs that contain my finished maps instead of exporting them into PDFs and ...
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Optimize ArcServer Service Drawing Speed

I am managing an ArcGIS service that is used by Geocortex Essentials as a web map app for some users. The feedback I have got so far is that it doesn't refresh fast enough. I'm looking for some ...
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Web Feature Service Question

If I set up a Web Feature Service that provides point (location) data, can my WFS also provide a bunch of additional data for events that occurred at those points? Is there a better way to do that? ...
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Help getting my flex service publicly accessible

My organization is trying to get our web maps up and running. I have created a simple web map service on our in house ArcGIS server, using the Arcgis flexviewer that is visible locally, works great, ...
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Can you use ArcObjects in an MVC service at v10.1

I'm slighlty confused with the changes at 10.1 and understand this version no longer supports DCOM or remote arcobjects. Can you use ArcObjects in a webservice (in my case a .NET MVC 4 service) that ...
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Examples of web based Overweight/Oversize load permit routing on County Roads

Does anyone know of any US counties that have set up a web based overweight/oversize load permit routing system, preferably one that leverages GIS? I know many state DOT's are doing this, but I don't ...
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What is the best free web GIS browser?

Hi I have created several projects for several different clients. Each project has OS maps, shapefile layers from Government Bodies, Shapefile layers created, AutoCAD dxf loaded in (in various ...
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OWSLib and python3

Trying to install OWSlib-master (and 0.7.1) from https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib yields problems that ultimately seem to be related to python3 >c:\Python32\python.exe setup.py install running ...
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The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly, WCF and ESRI Objects

I am getting this error when using ESRI objects like Geometry, Envelope etc in a WCF service. I have a class that some properties (string, int, double) but when I add ESRI type as part of this class, ...
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Libraries to render vector-based maps in the browser

Is there a open source JavaScript library like leaflet or openlayer which can be used in a web or mobile application and loads vector-based maps instead of images? I only need the road information and ...
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Is there an online tile-based elevation service?

I am working on an application that requires the elevation at a given lat/long coordinate for lots of closely spaced coordinates along any given irregular path. (The path is a trace of a ...
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Re-enabling a web service API call that has stopped working unexpectedly

so we have are running an instance of ArcGis Server, and have a handful of services running. These were set up by someone who is no longer working with the company. Some of them are built into ...
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Steps to create an interface Editing ArcSDE Layers in a web service online. Similar to ArcGIS Desktop

The initial idea is to make a multiuser web service for editing versions of an ArcSDE geodatabase online (each version for each user. Is it possible to acces through a password and user name?). Can I ...
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How do I create a geodata service from a certain Version?

This is with ArcGIS for Server and Desktop 10.1 I want to host a geodata service, but I don't want it to be from the DEFAULT version. I want it to be from an alternate version, that I can check the ...
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Geoserver transform post request to get?

I have the following geoprocessing post request: <wps:Execute xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/wps/1.0.0" xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs" ...
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Is it possible publishing a Python Add-in in a web service?

I'm trying to make a multiuser web service for editing an ArcSDE geodatabase. I wanted to know if I can to add my python add-in in Arcgis Server? And if the answer is yes, how can I publish it?
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Convert a UK postal code to a city name?

is there any service to convert a UK postal code to a city name? Does one postal code always map to one city, or to more than one? Is there a free web service to do this conversion for me? Thanks.
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Looking for web service to get State, County, and Place FIPS codes from an address

I have been searching for a few days to find a web service that will provide the State, County, and Place FIPS codes from an address input. Most of the services I've found only provide a State, ...
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Data safety in ArcGIS Server network

I want to know about the safety of data shared in an ArcGIS server network. Can someone hack into the network and steal the data? Suppose we create an ArcGIS web service and put up an application, can ...
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I need help understanding ArcSDE and Server. How can I access services outside network?

I'm learning about ArcSDE and ArcGIS for Server on my own without any official training. I've successfully installed ArcSDE and Server for 10.1. We are using SQL Server 2012 on a Windows 2012 Server ...
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Why 'Transparent' Parameter in OpenLayers is a Server Side Property?

There are four parameters for WMS Layers : Name, URL, Server Side Params, OpenLayer Options. And Transparent Parameter comes under Server Side Params. Does it mean that transparent images are ...
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Populating Dropdown based on Geoserver service

I am new to web programming here. I have a table which has multiple columns including: Restaurant Name,Restaurant Id, Lat, Lon, City, District, Country. My requirement is to build a web client using ...
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ArcGIS Server Search Service and mapped client drives

With ArcGIS Server (10.1), is it possible to register a folder to the Search Service for indexing using one path, and serve it to users with another? how? For example the server sees ...
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How to create a collaborative mapping website?

I have read about webservers, static and dynamic pages, cgi-bin... I can create a simple web mapping service in which a map with layers and controls will be there. And now I want to provide login ...
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How to setup proxy and use “POST” method when executing Geoprocessing Service in ArcGIS Server Javascript API

I am passing five featuresets to a ArcGIS Server Javascript API. When I do that I get 'Deferred Object not defined error'. Then I tried to use dojo.Deferred(). At that point the error goes away. But ...
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Error while publishing a mxd as service uing python

I have created an Excel file with Lat/lon values. I added this data tas a layer in the ArcMap. And I "used Display XY data" otion available on right click. I selected the GCS_WCS_1984 co-ordinate ...
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Are there any Python scripts for creating .mxd files?

I am a newbie to both ArcGIS and Python. My requirement is to automate the below MANUAL process: Creating a layer in ArcGIS for Desktop. To put it in another words, creating an ArcMap document ...
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Add Doppler RADAR as a Layer in ArcMap

I am hoping for an answer here even though it's a long shot. My goal is to add a raster service into ArcMap that shows the Doppler RADAR information that is shown at the Weather Office website. I am ...
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Are there any Geospatial OData Feeds?

I see that OData V3 has support for geospatial types. Has anyone published a feed that uses the new geospatial data types?
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Updates to ArcSDE via Oracle trigger

Is it possible and/or feasible for an Oracle trigger to periodically update ArcSDE via a REST geoprocessing service? Does anyone have any experience with such a thing? The reason for this is that I ...
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Unable to publish large map services to arcgis for server 10.1

I published various map services(feature layers) for multiple web mapping applications on the new ArcGIS for Server 10.1. There were about 50 services and averaged about 50mb in size. This was ...
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What are the requirements for building a Web Mapping and analysis Site?

I want to make a site like bhuvan in which it can provide different layers of information and also tools for performing GIS analysis I know three main requirements : client side scripting ...
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Is it possible to install GeoServer on a web server?

Is it possible to install and use GeoServer with PostgreSQL on a website which is hosted by a web server provider? I am using a web server for my website. I want to add mapping feature on my website. ...
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Negative values in Flex app

I have a contractor working for me on a Flex application. He retrieves recordset for a intersect query from the web service published in house. But he is getting some ids as negative random number ...
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Web based spatial data editor

Is possible to set up web access to GIS data such that a user could login and see the collected data and be allowed to suggest/draw changes but not be able to edit the data files? My idea is that ...
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Does the USGS SSURGO database have a web-based API that I can query?

Based on a previous question, Can I download the entire USGS SSURGO database?, it appears that it is difficult to import the entire USGS SSURGO database. The Web Soil Survey provides the ability to ...
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Creating MapServer in Geoprocessing service

Is it possible to create MapServer in Geoprocessing service in ArcServer 10? I have see that we can access MapServer from Geoprocessing result, http://<arcgis rest ...
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How can i create a webservice the shortest route between two POIs?

I would like to create a prototype of a webservice that can calculate the shortest route between two POIs. How can I do that ? (I don't have any knowledge about the back-end of GIS and webmapping. So ...
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What are the key features of a web map?

In response to comments, I'll rephrase the question: We're building a web based mapping and data querying system. The data are at several different scales, and should be queryable at these scales. ...
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Separation of Land - Body waters

Let me start by saying that I am not a GIS expert nor a cartographer , and my knowledge of GIS is limited to the quasi-null professional training I had as an architect. My question here was ...
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Concurrent users using a DLL to access ArcObjects?

So currently I have some ASP.net code where users are updated GIS through a DLL file that uses ArcObjects to talk to the MapService and layer. My question is, will there be concurrent user issues? ...
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Is there a web mapping server works on a linux shared hosting account?

Question: Is there a web mapping server software out there that works on a typical linux shared hosting account? Background: I have been trying find a web mapping server that would allow me to serve ...
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Is there an image service from GOES available for ArcGIS?

I have an arcmap project using an arcims service from NOAA ENC (http://ocs-spatial.ncd.noaa.gov) but maybe the service is unavailable right now and I can't access to imagery... Is there an image ...
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How can i use MapServer service using arcgis api for silverlight?

Is it possible to use a service published from MapServer using ArcGis api for Silverlight ? for exemple : <esri:FeatureLayer ID="Schools Without Attendance Areas" ...

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