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get ArcGIS data from a rest endpoint and convert to geojson for D3
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How to get useful data from Arcgis

http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/17/Arcgis_rest

GDAL tools

http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html

Topojson encodes topology:

https://github.com/mbostock/topojson

This is the command I used to grab the data for TC

ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -t_srs EPSG:4326 tcgeo.json "http://arcserver.tclp.org/arcgis/rest/services/City/CityParcelViewer/MapServer/0/query?where=objectid+%3D+objectid&outfields=*&f=json" OGRGeoJSON

This is the tutorial that got me started with D3 orignally -

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/

also this:

http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock

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