I'm interested in accessing the aerial imagery for one of my neighboring counties, but my lack of GIS ability seems to be getting in the way. I've tried QGIS without success, and I recently gained access to ArcGIS Pro, but still can't figure out how to load the images. I can't tell if the problem is on my end (likely!) or not, so if one of you GIS-savvy folks could let me know if the county link works for you then at least I'd know where the problem lies.
Here's a link to the county's imagery page: Solano County Aerial Imagery
Thanks!
In QGIS, make new WMTS connection:
copy and paste link below
hope this helps
@jim-frame I can confirm that @ozzy84 's link is good for both QGis and Trimble Access.
For future reference, I found the link provided by @ozzy84 by the following clicks -
then
and here it is!
Works in QGIS at least.
GB
Very helpful, especially Glenn's step-by-step images.
Thanks, all!
Hi! It looks like you already got an answer for QGIS, but I thought I'd provide the answer for ArcGIS Pro as well, just in case anyone else runs across this question and also wants to know.
In this particular case, it's a little bit strange, because while you found this layer in Solano County's Portal, the imagery itself is hosted in ArcGIS Online. I know this because the URL for the imagery (seen at the bottom right corner of the item page that you linked to) is tiles.arcgis.com. If we click the "view" button next to it, we can see that it's named "Aerial2024_WGS84" which is unique enough that we can search for it.
In ArcGIS Pro, go to the "Catalog" pane, then select "Portal", then click on the bare cloud icon. This basically points you to all the public facing content in ArcGIS Online. Paste or type that name in the search box and press enter. In this case, I found the exact match and was able to drag it into the map. One way to confirm that it's the same data is by hovering over the item in the search results, then click on the URL that shows as the item "path" - in this case it is <a href=" removed link " target="_blank" rel="noopener"> removed link - which is the same item you linked, but in ArcGIS Online rather than the Solano County Portal.
If you have a REST endpoint (the tiles.arcgis.com URL) but are not able to find the item by using the search in ArcGIS Pro, you can also add it directly to the project. In the "Map" ribbon click the "Add Data" dropdown, then select "Add data from path" and paste in that tiles.arcgis.com URL (or whatever REST URL you have). The service type should be automatically detected, then you can click add to have it dropped into your map.
I hope this can help somebody!
John
@jim-frame your last post above was excellent description on connecting to the map service via ArcGIS online. Having worked with the datum issue inside Pro/AGOL for years, and verifying that parcel data on same GIS site (for download) is referenced to the spatial reference (aka Coordinate system) based on NAD83 (2011), you may find in Pro that you get better results in lining up with the imagery if you select NONE in the map Properties / Coordinate system property box and set the shift to zero (aka molendesky 0,0,0). This is just a guess, but its quite possible that the tile service is based on NAD83 (2011) but simply defined as based on WGS84. Anyways, worth a check if you are using imagery at high spatial scale. Hope you are doing well. A ton of data online, but some of it are defined (not projected/transformed) as WebMercator/WGS84 for simplicity on the data storage side.