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Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

antoniogomez — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:56:55 GMT

Hello forum:

Is it possible to conect to a Geoserver WMTS service using an ArcMap 10.1 connection?
In other words... does ArcMap only connect to arcGis Server WMTS services?

thank you in advance

Antonio

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

GraemeBrowning — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:33:01 GMT

I have been able to connect to the City of Vienna's WMTS using ArcGIS for Desktop 10.1.

My understanding is that this WMTS is implemented using GeoServer.

- Graeme

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

JimSibbald — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:19:48 GMT

It will depend on whether you are using KVP or RESTful Encoding to connect to the WMTS. The WMTS GetCapabilities should be able to tell you what Encoding is offered for the service.

ArcGIS for Desktop at 10.1 (No Service Packs or Patches) has an issue with KVP in that in forming the http GetTile it does not add a value for the Format. For instance capturing in Fiddler,

(Example not Live)
GET http://.....&format=&TileMatrixSet=ogc:1.0:globalcrs84pixel&TileMatrix=0&TileRow=0&TileCol=0
400 Bad Request (text/xml)

should be

(Example not Live)
GET http://.....&format=image/png&TileMatrixSet=ogc:1.0:globalcrs84pixel&TileMatrix=0&TileRow=0&TileCol=0
200 OK (image/png)

works.

This has been reported.

If it has RESTFul and KVP then Desktop defaults to RESTFul and it works fine.

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

JimSibbald — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:15:50 GMT

The missing format in KVP should be fixed in 10.1 SP2 http://support.esri.com/en/bugs/nimbus/TklNMDg0ODA2

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

GraemeBrowning — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:39:23 GMT

That's great news - thankyou for pursuing this!

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

JasonLee — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 07:49:20 GMT

Hi,
I have also been playing around with getting a WMTS service in ArcGIS 10.1 (SP1). I am using my own custom tiles through my own WMTS service (not Geoserver) which I can successfully pull in but when I overlay some building outline shapefiles I can see an offset of about 48 meters.

I then also tried loading in the same City of Vienna's WMTS, mentioned earlier, and can see a similar offset when compared to loading in some OSM and ESRI Streets Basemaps (File>Add Data>Add Basemap...). Is there a known issue with displaying WMTS in 10.1?

I ask because I noted some WMTS fixes in 10.2 release notes - but I don't yet have access to this version to verify...

Jason

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

DavidHollema — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:14:43 GMT

Hi,
I have also been playing around with getting a WMTS service in ArcGIS 10.1 (SP1). I am using my own custom tiles through my own WMTS service (not Geoserver) which I can successfully pull in but when I overlay some building outline shapefiles I can see an offset of about 48 meters.

I then also tried loading in the same City of Vienna's WMTS, mentioned earlier, and can see a similar offset when compared to loading in some OSM and ESRI Streets Basemaps (File>Add Data>Add Basemap...). Is there a known issue with displaying WMTS in 10.1?

I ask because I noted some WMTS fixes in 10.2 release notes - but I don't yet have access to this version to verify...

Jason

We're seeing issues in shifts depending on the Tile Matrix Set we choose. A question I have is how the Tile Matrix set relates to the dataframe coordinate system? Are they independent? Or, will ArcMap always try to project back to the dataframe crs regardless of which tile matrix set I choose?

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

GraemeBrowning — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 22:26:46 GMT

If your Tile Matrix is in a different datum from the data frame then you will need to apply a Transformation to have them line up.

I cannot see anything in your post to say whether you have included this step.

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

JasonLee — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:39:42 GMT

There seems to be a few WMTS fixes in ArcGIS 10.2 - http://downloads.esri.com/support/downloads/other_/102-IssuesAddressedList.pdf, in particular:-

"NIM086059 In ArcMap when the tiling schema for WMTS is changed to googleTiling Schema, the display shifts and the basemap is overlaid with other services."

I'm pretty sure there's a bug there in my 10.1, for example if I follow the instructions for the sample WMTS from MapTiler: http://tileserver.maptiler.com/#nt27ne.mbtiles/arcgis10x.guide, and do the same in QGIS (2.0.1): http://tileserver.maptiler.com/#nt27ne.mbtiles/qgis.guide - and in both cases load in an OSM basemap (QGIS via OpenLayers plugin) making the WMTS layer semi-transparent, QGIS displays both layers overlaid perfectly whilst I can still see the offset in ArcGIS 10.1.

(I wonder if ESRI will release a patch for those of us still on v10.1)

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

JasonLee — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:41:24 GMT

Thanks to an update from City of Vienna's website, there seems to be a workaround for ArcGIS 10.1 users: https://open.wien.at/site/erweiterung-wmts/

...they provided a workaround alternative getCapabilities document:-
http://maps.wien.gv.at/wmts/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities-arcmap.xml

(regular getCapabilities: http://maps.wien.gv.at/wmts/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml)

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

ShamusFuller — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:32:21 GMT

Just ran across this post and thought I'd add the following in case it helps:

10.2 does seem to work, better at least. We had to manually edit our getcapibilities xml from GeoServer however to get 10.2 to understand the extents. Our version of GeoWebCache (standalone gwc, not GeoServer integrated) does not add a wgs84boundingbox node since we're only emitting EPSG:3857, so 10.2 freaks out and issues requests for data that doesn't exist. Grew weary of that and simply pointed all of the arc clients to a manually edited static xml file that has the node defined for each layer and contains the extents shown in our GeoServer layer groups UI.

When the layers are password protected, they will not automatically reconnect as the arc server based layers do however. So, when a layer is saved in an .mxd for instance, opening the .mxd is painful, the layer will not show, 401 errors are prolific, haven't figured this one out yet.

The EPSG:4326 encoded layers always shifted in arcmap, which is why we switched to EPSG:3857. Has this been fixed in 10.2? I do not know.

Re: Accessing Geoserver WMTS from ArcGis Desktop

JaredFischer — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:42:05 GMT

Hey everyone,

I know this is an old thread but I'm in a similar situation, only using GeoServer 2.13 and ArcGIS 10.5. I'm trying to use a WMTS layer in ArcMap, and I can connect to it, and bring in a layer into the map, and it goes to the correct extent, but nothing actually renders. After reading Jim's comments, I checked our GetCapabilities document, and it has KVP encoding only. Anyone know how to add or enable RESTful encoding? Help would be much appreciated!