Dynamic vector KML from AGS Server in Google Earth

[david.shaeffer]

I have a KML file that points to my Map Service on our AGS Server. I have it setup using <viewFormat> parameter in the main KML file to limit what is returned by the server the bounding box/view port of Google Earth(see code below). I can get the Map Service to return a raster/overlay to the GE client for the bounding box/viewport but I cannot get the Map Service to return vector kml for the bounding box. The server is trying to return the entire Map Service Feature Layer as a vectorized KML instead of just the features within the display extent.

I have submitted a ticket to ESRI and it seems to be confusing to them. I haven't been able to find anything on this topic anywhere. You can check out a working example of this functionality that EPA maintains here (select the vector version): http://www.epa.gov/waters/tools/WATE...WATERSKMZ.html I confirmed with EPA that this is out of the box functionality with AGS Server. The only difference that I know of is that they are running AGS Server 9.3.1 and I am on 10.

This is the code in the main KML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<NetworkLink>
<name>Streams</name>
<visibility>0</visibility>
<Style>
<ListStyle id="Streams_FETCH">
<listItemType>check</listItemType>
<ItemIcon>
<state>error</state>
<href>files/StreamsError_1_3.png</href>
</ItemIcon>
<ItemIcon>
<state>fetching2</state>
<href>files/Streams3_1_3.png</href>
</ItemIcon>
<ItemIcon>
<state>open</state>
<href>files/Streams0_1_3.png</href>
</ItemIcon>
<ItemIcon>
<state>closed</state>
<href>files/Streams0_1_3.png</href>
</ItemIcon>
<bgColor>ffffffff</bgColor>
<maxSnippetLines>2</maxSnippetLines>
</ListStyle>
</Style>
<Url>
<href>http://NWS-AS01GIS/TestArc/services/ODRG/Test_Service/MapServer/KmlServer?</href>
<viewRefreshMode>onStop</viewRefreshMode>
<viewRefreshTime>2</viewRefreshTime>
<viewFormat>LayerIDs=1&amp;transparent=true&amp;bbox=[bboxWest],[bboxSouth],[bboxEast],[bboxNorth]&amp;size=[horizPixels],[vertPixels]&amp;</viewFormat>
</Url>
</NetworkLink>
</kml>

This is my goal:

[david.shaeffer]

I submitted a ticket to ESRI and after a couple weeks of research, they determined that is a bug in ArcGIS 10 Server. ESRI logged the bug today. This functionality works in 9.3.1 so if you need to use this feature you might consider staying at 9.3.1 for now.

[david.shaeffer]

Here is the workaround for AGS 10:

David,

We further identified the issue to be related to KMZ based off MXD map services and KMZ based on MSD map service (versin 10) does not have this problem. So as a workaround you could publish MSD map service then create KMZ based on that. Please let me know if this works for you or further questions. Thank you.

Regards,

John Z.

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