Hi, I'm a researcher trying to get data out of an ArcIMS map.

The Baltimore Police Department posts geo-coded crime data to a web tool which uses ArcIMS--it's AJAX based, so it seems like it must be pulling XML data from somewhere. I'm thinking that there has to be a way to scrape this data, but I'm not too up to speed on Javascript, so I'm having trouble figuring out which JS file is the significant one.

The tool is located at: http://maps.baltimorepolice.org/bpdmaps/police_querytype.asp?cmd=neighborhood&PD=EASTERN

Anyone have experience scraping from ARCIms?

Thanks! Tom

In reply to [SOLVED] Scraping from ArcIMS Map by Tomcat7194

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