#1495: r.in.wms man page needs new example: OnEarth WMS server has shut down
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Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@…
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Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.2
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Hi,
the r.in.wms help pages use NASA's OnEarth WMS server for all of its
examples, but now that has shut down (except that is for certain pre-
rendered tiles, but that's a job for another script..). http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/
any globally interesting suggestions for what we could replace it with?
this also has sad consequences for the very useful r.in.onearth addon
module.
#1495: r.in.wms man page needs new example: OnEarth WMS server has shut down
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Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@…
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Comment(by hamish):
Hi,
I have now written a script that takes your starting lat/lon and finds the
grid coords of the nearest WMS tiles at the given lat/lon resolution
(taken from a fixed list of server options), downloads the tiles, pnmcat's
them together, and calc's the final bounding box of it all.
Also I've done a script which does the same-but-different for TMS servers
like OSM (technically should work for Google/Bing/etc maps too if the
terms of use allowed that) into the spherical-merc funny-projection.
before I invest the time to grassify them into addons, I'd ask if anyone
else has already done it & if I'd just be reinventing the wheel.
#1495: r.in.wms man page needs new example: OnEarth WMS server has shut down
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Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@…
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Changes (by hamish):
* milestone: 6.4.2 => 6.4.3
Comment:
I've now rewritten r.in.onearth to work with the tiled WMS server, I've
only lightly tested it with the LANDSAT global mosaic, probably a few bugs
remain and new layers to tweak (e.g. tilesize 480x480 instead of 512x512).
But it's nice to have quick landsat backdrops again, wherever you need
them.
The r.in.wms help page examples are still non-functional AFAIK and seek a
stable server to replace the NASA urls.
#1495: r.in.wms man page needs new example: OnEarth WMS server has shut down
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Comment(by hamish):
someone mentioned the flightgear WFS the other day, how about using their
WMS as the example?
#1495: r.in.wms man page needs new example: OnEarth WMS server has shut down
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#1495: r.in.wms man page needs new example: OnEarth WMS server has shut down
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Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@…
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Comment(by neteler):
Replying to [comment:4 hamish]:
> beginnings of an update in r55915.
#1495: r.in.wms man page needs new example: OnEarth WMS server has shut down
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Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@…
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Comment(by hamish):
The mapserver.flightgear.org from TelaScience is good because it's a
joint-OSGeo effort, but not so good because it is quite slow.
others suggestions for interesting local detail + global coverage open WMS
servers are welcome.
