How to get shapefiles from esri webmap

[AndrewEastop]

Hello

I am doing some university research on planning within council areas and need to get shapefiles from a webmap. Does anyone know how to do this easily?

This is the url for one of the online maps I want to export.. https://bdbc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=dd203d139d254dacb4faab6326d64c66

Any help on this would be very much appreciated

[TonyContreras_Frisco_TX · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Since this data is owned by the municipality, I highly recommend requesting it using this email: local.plan@basingstoke.gov.uk

A shapefile cannot be directly downloaded from a service, however you can add layers to ArcGIS Pro from the service used in the web app. Here is the URL for the service:

https://gis.basingstoke.gov.uk/server/rest/services/LocalPlan/AdoptedLocalPlan/MapServer

Click on the Layer name to get the URL for that individual layer.

[AndrewEastop]

Thanks very much Tony! How did you find the URL for the service please? I will need to do the same for a number of other council areas.

thanks for your help

[TonyContreras_Frisco_TX · Accepted solution]

You can open the Developer tools in the web browser (Control + Shift + i) when you open the web mapping application. Click on the "Network" tab. You might have to reload the page after opening the tools. Then look through the calls that are made for something like 'export' or 'query' in the name column. hover your mouse over each to see the full URL.

The format should be something like https:<domain.com>/<server web adaptor>/rest/services/<folder>/<servicename> /MapServer

Copy the URL for the entry that looks like the service you are interested and paste it in a new tab. Remove everything after 'MapServer', then load the page. If they have not disabled the Rest Directory, you should see all the layers that are part of the service.

[AndrewEastop]

Thanks Tony! I assume there is no way I can edit this in my own ArcPro project?

[TonyContreras_Frisco_TX]

You're very welcome. This type of service only sends images back to ArcGIS Pro, and the data definitely can't be edited through the service. If you want your own copy of the data, I strongly recommend requesting the data. There are some workarounds, however I will not be giving that up here for all the world to see. 😉

Good luck with your project!