Monthly Archives: August 2008

EPA Supports WATERS Geospatial data through OGC WMS/WFS Services

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EPA appears to be using ESRI’s ArcIMS 9.2 OGC connectors to publish OGC WMS/WFS services of their WATERS data.

See below for threads
that mention the limitations and issues with working with these semi-standard
services from ESRI.

http://mailman-viper.python-hosting.com/pipermail/users/2006-July/000103.html

http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/2007-May/001571.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/users@openlayers.org/msg04240.html
- Little thread that I started a while ago to check on support for pure ESRI
services.

When you need a sexy terrain relief map

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If you’ve ever needed to make nice looking relief maps like I do now, have a look at these sites.

http://www.reliefshading.com/ and http://www.shadedrelief.com/

I want to make something along the lines of Google’s terrain map, but with a client’s higher-resolution DEM data. I don’t if ESRI’s Spatial Analyst is going to get me quite where I want to go, so I’m going to have to maybe try some other tools