arcgis-pbf-parser

arcgis-pbf-parser

A library for converting an arcgis-pbf into a geojson FeatureCollection.

By itself it doesn't do much but you can find a more complex example of it's usage is in my mapbox-gl-arcgis-featureserver library.

Basic Usage

const arcgisPbfDecode = require('arcgis-pbf-parser')
// or in ES6
import arcgisPbfDecode from' arcgis-pbf-parser'

fetch('Some/FeatureServer/0/query?f=pbf&...')
  .then(response => response.arrayBuffer())
  .then(data => {
    const featureCollection = arcgisPbfDecode(new Uint8Array(data)).featureCollection
   })

The decode method returns an object containing the featureCollection, and a boolean specifying if there were too many features and so you need to paginate for more features with the same request.

{
  featureCollection: {
    ...
  },
  exceededTransferLimit: true/false
}

Note I've not bundled the pbf dependency in my package, so you may need to npm install pbf --save in your project, although many of the common mapping libraries already include it so 🤞 you shouldn't need to.

Status

This was cobbled together fairly quickly based on the minimal documentation available.

Done

• Polgon
  • Inc MultiPolygon
  • Inc Polygon with holes
• LineString
• Point
• Attributes

To Do

• MultiPoint (a sample service would be helpful)
• MultiLineString (a sample service would be helpful)
• Write proper tests

Acknowledgements

• I used the proto spec file supplied by Esri here
• I used the mapbox pbf library to compile the src/parser/PbfFeatureCollection.js module for parsing rather than the one supplied by Esri
  • This results in a slimmer & faster package and the pbf dependency will be shared/tree-shaken with mapbox-gl.