ArcGIS Server provides a convenient REST interface for map and feature services that you can view in your browser. Sometimes, however, you want more information without navigating between pages. Are you looking for the map service with that feature or field that needs to be replaced? Did you ever wonder why some of the features aren't showing up on your web map? Ever wish you could see data on a list of map services, like map projection or a list of features? Ever forgot a field name while you were constructing a query string on a feature service endpoint?
In this talk, we'll look at an open-source project I made available on Github to help you navigate, inspect, and troubleshoot your map services. The project uses JavaScript bookmarklets, tiny scripts of JavaScript code that are called from your browser bookmarks, to interact with the REST services and present more detail. We'll perform a live demonstration against public map services to show how the tools work, what information you can collect, and what you can do with that information. We'll also talk about how you can contribute to the project, too.
raykendo/ESRI_REST_Diagnostics · GitHub
