topic Query ArcGIS Server or arcpy and local features in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/query-arcgis-server-or-arcpy-and-local-features/m-p/292220#M10149 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, I'm building an web application will accept a user input and query several layers for their values as well as do some processing to determine intersections, whether the user's geometry touches a layer in the system and so on. I'm very new to arcpy so I just need some general guidelines.</SPAN><BR /><UL><BR />Is it a bad approach to try and read the shapefiles on disk or from geodatabase to get all the answers I need, or should I...<BR />Should I let the user publish the layers (or use arcpy to publish the layers) then construct the identify url to the ArcGIS Server and work with that response?<BR /></UL></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:52:31 GMT JayDub 2012-08-15T21:52:31Z Query ArcGIS Server or arcpy and local features https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/query-arcgis-server-or-arcpy-and-local-features/m-p/292220#M10149 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, I'm building an web application will accept a user input and query several layers for their values as well as do some processing to determine intersections, whether the user's geometry touches a layer in the system and so on. I'm very new to arcpy so I just need some general guidelines.</SPAN><BR /><UL><BR />Is it a bad approach to try and read the shapefiles on disk or from geodatabase to get all the answers I need, or should I...<BR />Should I let the user publish the layers (or use arcpy to publish the layers) then construct the identify url to the ArcGIS Server and work with that response?<BR /></UL></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:52:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/query-arcgis-server-or-arcpy-and-local-features/m-p/292220#M10149 JayDub 2012-08-15T21:52:31Z