From the course: Real-World GIS (2014)

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Using ArcGIS.com efficiently in the client

Using ArcGIS.com efficiently in the client - ArcGIS Tutorial

From the course: Real-World GIS (2014)

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Using ArcGIS.com efficiently in the client

Here I'm going to show you how to use ArcGIS efficiently in the client to find some more servers. If you haven't logged in already, go ahead and do so now. I've already shown you a couple of ways to think about the ArcGIS client software and its connections to GIS servers. And now I want to show you another. We will do a search in arcgis.com for something that interests us. And we will not only see the available map services but also the paths to those map services. So let's do that search now. In the upper right, I'll choose something that's of interest to me, such as planning. And let's pick Minnesota as our state of interest. It looks like we have 53 results. Scrolling down, here we go, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Let's click on that one. Okay, lets see what's being served. Great, it looks like a lot of map contents here are using REST services. If I click on this first option, sure enough, here's the ArcGIS REST services directory, in this case for St. Louis County, Minnesota. So…

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