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Map Image Web Service v2006

Map Image Web Service offers dynamic map content for your Internet applications. With this service, you input various options (such as data source, size of image, map annotation) and receive the URL location of an output image file. You can also merge map images and save maps for later use.

Map Image Web Service accesses data from several leading data publishers. See Service Finder for a list of the available services you can use to create map images.

Map Image Web Service offers the following capabilities:

Generate map image for specified geographic area
Generate thematic map based on ESRI demographic variables or user-defined values
Use a style sheet to customize the look of your map
Specify type (jpg, gif, svg, swf, and png)
Specify image size
Specify background color
Display scale bar
Display text
Display map
Display custom icons with labels
Display circle
Display marker points including custom markers
Determine coordinates for a map click
Fuse map images
Save and retrieve maps

WSDL locations

http://www.arcwebservices.com/services/v2006/MapImage.wsdl

https://www.arcwebservices.com/services/v2006/MapImage.wsdl

NOTE: HTTPS is available if you need added security to call ArcWeb services. Authentication Web Service and other ArcWeb services must be accessed with the same IP address for the authentication token to be valid.

Live sample client

To see Map Image Web Service in action, interact with a live sample of a Map Image client. See Code sample downloads overview for information on creating clients for ArcWeb services, including downloadable code for ColdFusion MX, JavaServer Pages (JSP) with Glue and Axis, and C# ASP.NET, and VB ASP.NET.

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Map Image Web Service v2006

WSDL locations

Live sample client

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