You can use the Report Web Service to create a demographic report or a print-quality thematic map for a specified area in the United States. For a given study area or trade area, the Report Web Service applies a spatial query (if needed), obtains the necessary raw data for the report, aggregates it, and returns the aggregated results in PDF, Excel, or XML format. ArcWeb Services stores the generated report for 24 hours. If you want to view the report for longer than 24 hours, save a local copy of the report file.
The available data for these reports and thematic maps includes
The Report Web Service offers the following capabilities:
There are many services (data sources) you can use to create your reports and thematic maps. See Service Finder for a complete list.
See the ESRI data page for more information and sample reports. The data aggregation method used for the reports provides much more accurate results than a simple overlay or buffer operation. Data is calculated for each trade area using a weighted block centroid geographic retrieval methodology. See Working with Data and Reports for more information on how this methodology differs from a simple overlay or area proportional method.
http://www.arcwebservices.com/services/v2006_1/Report?wsdl
https://www.arcwebservices.com/services/v2006_1/Report?wsdl
NOTE: HTTPS is available if you need added security to call ArcWeb services. The Authentication Web Service and other ArcWeb services must be accessed with the same IP address for the authentication token to be valid.
To see Report Web Service in action, interact with a live sample of a Report client. See Code sample downloads overview for information on creating clients for ArcWeb services, including downloadable code for JavaServer Pages (JSP) with Glue and Axis, C# ASP.NET, and Visual Basic ASP.NET.
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