topic How to get the coordinate system name from the map's published spatial reference wkid in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

How to get the coordinate system name from the map's published spatial reference wkid

JeffDyott — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:52:11 GMT

I have a map service published from ArcGIS Server. I'd like to display the coordinate system name in my javascript application, but all I see published is the spatial reference wkid. For example, if 32611 is the published map's spatial reference, I want to show WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_11N to the users of my javascript page. Any suggestions?

Re: How to get the coordinate system name from the map's published spatial reference

MattLane — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:15:33 GMT

You could make an ESRI request to http://spatialreference.org/

Unfortunately the JSON doesn't return what you are looking for, but you could handle the GML (as xml) returned from http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/32611/gml/

Re: How to get the coordinate system name from the map's published spatial reference

JeffJacobson — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:19:11 GMT

You could make an ESRI request to http://spatialreference.org/

Unfortunately the JSON doesn't return what you are looking for, but you could handle the GML (as xml) returned from http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/32611/gml/

You could also load the HTML page from spatialreference.org and search the results for the element with the id "header_title". E.g., http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/32611/

Re: How to get the coordinate system name from the map's published spatial reference

JeffDyott — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:21:42 GMT

Good suggestions. Thanks!