[Geowanking] Gulf Oil Spill Disaster GIS data locked behind BPCorporate Firewall

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Jun 16, 2010, at 11:28 AM, ext Sean Gorman wrote:

> IMHO an AGS mapping service is about as open as a PDF.  It is a picture on a map - nothing more.  Open and AGS should be an oxymoron.  Seriously try getting anything out of that second link other than a picture.

Er, 

http://www.gulfofmexicoresponsemap.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/MC252_Incident_Data/MapServer/6/query?text=&geometry=-180%2C+-90%2C+180%2C+90&geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope&inSR=&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&where=&returnGeometry=true&outSR=4326&outFields=NAME%2C+State&f=kmz

All of:

http://www.gulfofmexicoresponsemap.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/MC252_Incident_Data/MapServer/1

are queryable:

http://www.gulfofmexicoresponsemap.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/MC252_Incident_Data/MapServer/5/query

This is a far sight better than any other non-ArcGIS GIS system I've seen.


> It means none of this data can remixed reused or repurposed.  Which from a disaster response stand point makes it of limited value.

You seem to be lost if you think you can't re-use this data. Vector KMZs with Geometries seem pretty useful to me. If you can't re-use those, I don't know what you *do* want.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Nokia