ArcMap

Accessing OS Features API via ESRI ArcMap

ArcMap is a geographic information system (GIS) application that is part of Esri's ArcGIS suite of geospatial software. It is used primarily to view, edit, create, and analyse geospatial data.

These instructions demonstrate how to integrate and apply the OS Features API into ArcMap in order to produce a series of topography layers based on our latest OS MasterMap Topography layer data.

What you need?

• ArcMap 10.5 or later.

• Data Interoperability Tools extension for ArcMap.

• A preloaded base map, for example OS Maps API.

• OS Features API URL and key. See Getting started with an API project for more information.

Instructions

We used ArcMap 10.5 to create these instructions.

To access the OS Features API with ArcMap, you must first install the Data Interoperability Tools extension.

1. Start ArcMap and open Arc Toolbox. Select the Data Interoperability Tools > Quick Import.

   
2. In the Quick Import dialog, select Input Dataset and then select More Formats in the Format field dropdown.

   
3. In the FME Reader Gallery dialog, select WFS (Web Feature Service) and then click OK. Additional formats may be available if you have a licence for the full extension. Our example uses the free version of the Data Interoperability Tools extension.

   
4. In the Specify Data Source dialog, enter the full OS Features API URL (including the OS key in the Dataset field and then click Parameters.

   
5. On the next screen, click ... (three dots) next to the Constraints > Feature Types field.

   
6. In the Select Feature Types dialog, select the data layers you want to add and click OK.

   
7. Click OK in each of the remaining open dialogs to close them.

8. In the Quick Import dialog, in Output Staging GeoDatabase select a location to save the exported Geodatabase.

   
9. The exported Geodatabase with the selected data layers will now display in the Catalog panel.

   
10. You can now add the data to the map by dragging a data layer onto the map view. You can also do this by clicking Add Data, navigating to the Geodatabase and then selecting the desired layers.

11. You can style the WFS data in the same way as file-based vector data.