Public Land System Survey

[JimJolley]

I am trying to get a complete layer of sections for the state of Arkansas.  The intent is to have a pop-up to show section, township, range.  Also, I intend to create a query to allow a user to enter the section, township, and range for locating it.  ESRI has the layer as a service, but it has several blank areas.  Arkansas has a WFS service with the complete PLSS sections layer, http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/arcgis/services/FEATURE_SERVICES/GEOSTOR_CADAS/MapServer/WFSServer , but ArcGIS Online Explorer gives an error when I try to add the service.  Can anyone assist me in getting a complete PLSS layer for Arkansas?  Thank you.

[JoeFlannery]

Have you tried:
http://www.geocommunicator.gov/ArcGIS/services

[JimJolley]

Joe,

Thank you for the URL.  However, I was unable to connect to it.  I tried both Add Content and making it a Service.  Maybe there is something fundamental that I'm missing.  Could you add it in your ArcGIS Online account and include me in your Group?  My user name is jrjolleyhome.  Thanks.  JJ

[JoeFlannery]

Hi Jim

Sorry, the link I shared with you earlier works in ArcCatalog.  To use any AGS map service in ArcGIS Explorer Online you need to hit a REST endpoint.  Try this -  http://www.geocommunicator.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/PLSS/MapServer 

I have a public-facing ArcGIS Explorer Online map with this service in the TOC
http://explorer.arcgis.com/?open=90a58e586b434cf6adfd87cd7a4b498d

[JimJolley]

Joe,

We are cooking with gas now.  The rest was the piece of the puzzle that was missing.  This will have a tremendous impact on the wildfire suppression dispatch operations in our agency.  Thank you.  JJ

[jonathanphillips]

Did you finish your project?  Did you get it all to work? I also am looking for a way to let users query by PLSS.  And the popup idea you had would be nice to add as well. Thanks.

[JimJolley]

I was finally able to get connected to Geostor for Arkansas's PLSS.  It needed a rest statement.  Also, I requested that the data manager concatenate the Section Township and Range into one field.  This allows the query function to locate a specified Section.  Very useful.  Thanks for all the help.  JJ