OpenLayers and the ESRI RESTful API

December 23, 2008 4 Comments

There is more going on with OpenLayers and the ESRI REST API than you probably know (I keep finding more and more that I didn’t know about every day).  As more people start using OpenLayers with the ESRI ArcGIS Server we’ll hopefully get it integrated into the OpenLayer code.  For now you can grab some of the code from the OpenLayer Wiki and start using OpenLayers with your ArcGIS Server applications.  People are doing amazing things with OpenLayers including this example with ArcGIS Server (which doesn’t use the REST API, but it is still wonderful) from the Long Island Index.

 

Wouldnt the ESRI JavaScript API page look better with OpenLayers?

Wouldn't the ESRI JavaScript API page look better with OpenLayers?

Update (12-24-2008): OpenLayers now has some case studies online as well.

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4 Responses to OpenLayers and the ESRI RESTful API

  1. matt kenny says:
    December 23, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    digging up examples of ArcGIS Server and OpenLayers was going to be my late-night research project. you’re taking the fun out of the internet, james!

  2. Alper Dincer says:
    December 24, 2008 at 8:07 am

    I agree with you. ESRI should add OpenLayers support to handle Google Maps and Virtual Earth at the same time.

    Also there is a problem of using Google Maps API to make your data available to whole world with the help of Google. After change of the terms of use, we started to focus on OpenLayers instead of Google Maps API.

  3. Matt Priour says:
    December 24, 2008 at 10:03 am

    @James,
    You are such a tease! I saw that “screen shot” and went straight over to the ArcGIS API page. After hitting F5 a couple of times I realized this was not a wonderful Christmas present from ESRI, but only wishful thinking.
    As you wrote in a previous post, there is already an OpenLayers sandbox in which someone has done most if not all of the legwork to make an ArcGIS server JS extender for OpenLayers. Others just need to start trying to use that so that it can be imporved and get traction. I love OpenLayers and would prefer to use it over any of the proprietary JS mapping API’s.

  4. Farid says:
    March 19, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Hi James

    I was trying to overlay a ArcGIS REST mapserver service on top of Google Maps using Openlayers but the result was not what I expected. The overlay shifted way up north though it is in WGS 84 Web Mercator. The other layers in EPSG 4326 coming from GeoServer WMS and PostGIS overlay fine.

    Please help!!! It will be highly appreciated.