Connecting to Energy Map Services

Energy map services provide you access to IHS Markit spatial data over the Internet that you can connect to Spatial Explorer or other ESRI or custom-developed web mapping applications. Energy map services are available to subscribing customers on the Energy Portal of the IHS website: my.ihs.com.

To add energy map services as data sources in Spatial Explorer, you need the URL for the map service, as well as the user name and password for the account that has access to these services. There are several ways to locate the URL for a map service, though the following procedure is suggested as a best practice. A list of IHS map service URLs is also available in the Map Services Directory.

To locate and use the URL for an energy map service:

1. Log on to the IHS energy map services web site at my.ihs.com.
2. Click the Energy Map Services link.
3. Click the Gallery link.
4. Browse to locate and select the map you want.
5. Click the Metadata link.
6. Click the Map Service Access link.
7. Copy the URL provided after 'Httpauth Example."
8. In Spatial Explorer, click Add new data source > Map services.
9. Paste the URL in the Address field.
10. Type a descriptive name for the data source in the Display field.
11. Click Connect.
12. Provide the user name and password for the IHS map services account.
13. Click Log on and Load Layer.