Questions tagged [wms]
A Web Map Service (WMS) is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet
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Difference between WMTS and WMS
What is the main difference between a Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) and a Web Map Service (WMS)?
When should you choose one over the other?
What are the (dis)advantages by choosing one over the other?
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What are differences between WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS?
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I do not understand the differences between WMS, WFS, WCS, and WPS.
Can you explain the differences between them?
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Seeking Python Lib for requesting WMS/WFS and saving as image/PDF [closed]
i am wondering whether there's Python open-source GIS lib which has APIs to support call WMS/WFS from another GIS server (e.g., GeoServer) and then save the response data(WMS Basemap and WFS layer) as ...
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Securing WMS against unauthorized access?
In a project the customer wants the images of the WMS to be secured against unauthorized access.
What are the common solutions to realize that?
Are they compatible with the OGC-standards?
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Save a WMS layer on your Hard Drive via QGIS?
Well, here's another question. I'm working on a set of WMS data right now and i wanted to know if you can save it on a Hard drive. I do know that you can save the current view as a georeferenced Tif, ...
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Listing available online WMS services (Weather, Land Data, Place Names)?
I'm Looking for WMS services freely available to the public to overlay on my application, specifically weather and AIS information.
Perhaps this is a good place to list some available online WMS ...
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Recommended Server Specs for GeoServer
we serve our Geographic data via our flagship application Dorset Explorer. This uses OpenLayers and GeoServer to serve our Geographic data, including OSM and OS Basemaps and a mass of other data such ...
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Adding OpenStreetMap WMS layer to QGIS
I'm trying to add Openstreet Map (OSM) to QGIS3 (Ubuntu 16.04) as a background WMS layer. I found a list of OSM WMS Servers, and a WMS tab in the new Data Source Manager (Ctrl+L).
But after clicking ...
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Pausing WMS layer auto refresh in OpenLayers 3?
I have an application which has to perform a HTTP request (which will handle some map transformations) before fetching WMS tiles from server.
Is there a way to pause TileWMS auto-refreshing after ...
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GetMap - WMS 1.1.1 vs 1.3.0
This works:
http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/sc?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256&FORMAT=image/png&BBOX=-83.4,32,-78.4,35.3&LAYERS=...
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Free map service for private web applications
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Looking to display a map (for internal use only) on a web page. The application must be able to add custom layers (without sending the data to the map service host):
Municipal zones (...
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How to get Leaflet interactivity from Geoserver WMS?
I have geoserver serving shapefiles as a WMS into Leaflet.
I'd like to add interativity that shows a popup with WMS attributes in the Leaflet map when the user hovers over or clicks on a WMS feature.
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Is there an exhaustive, searchable catalog of all GIS web services (e.g. OGC WMS/WFS, REST, SOAP)?
Many of us have struggled to get a list of GIS services that are available on the internet. Specifically map services that expose OGC based interfaces like WMS, WFS or Web Service interfaces like REST,...
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How to filter big datasets in Geoserver WMS?
Is there a good way to filter datasets with approx 50,000 features in Geoserver? I'd have to select between 100 and 200 features based on ids. These ids are different from the FeatureIds. Couldn't ...
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What is CRS:84 projection?
Does anybody know is CRS:84 in WMS v.1.3.0 getCapabalities response is same projection as WGS84 (EPSG:2180)(EPSG:4326)?
And is [westBoundLongitude],[eastBoundLongitude],[southBoundLatitude],[...
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How can I avoid incomplete WMS layers when exporting large maps in QGIS 2.6?
I have a QGIS 2.6 project with around 20 vector layers and an WMS layer (working on Ubuntu 14.04). WMS rendering works OK, although a little bit slow, and exporting A4-size maps also works properly (...
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Is it possible to setup fiddler to capture requests from QGIS
I want to know if it is possible setup fiddler to capture WMS/WFS requests from QGIS and how to do it.
Fiddler is capturing the requests from MapInfo and I don't remember making any setup in fiddler ...
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Should I use WFS, WMS or SOS considering performance and security?
My task is to develop a web application which will visualize the temporal data on map and produce a kind of data flow (or animation) from the images/data which have been received from server.
For ...
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Good introduction to INSPIRE?
Can anyone point me to a good introduction to the INSPIRE directive? I know it's basically WMS 1.3 with added bells and whistles but now I'm back in Europe I should probably find out what they are.
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How to compute the bounding box of multiple layers in lat/long?
I am writing an application to performance test all kinds of map services, primarily AGS 9.x, AGS 10, and WMS 1.x.
Part of the application involves generating random bounding boxes for individual ...
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Tile WMS vs Image WMS
In OpenLayers 3, there is is ol.source.TileWMS and ol.source.ImageWMS. I don't know if this is specific to OpenLayers, but what are the trade-offs between tileWMS and imageWMS? Is there a performance ...
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Extract portion of WMS raster layer
Using QGIS on Windows XP based desktop.
I am trying to use USDA orthophoto data from this WMS server:
"http://raster.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/services/Orthoimagery/USGS_EDC_Ortho_NAIP/ImageServer/...
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Avoiding Pink tiles when DB view/Table is empty
I have views that are spatial in a sense that they select some spatial column from other table. This table is published using GeoServer. This table is live and sometime has no data at all. When the ...
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Comparison of WMS and WFS services
I am writing my thesis about WMS and WFS services. I would like to compare these two services.
Can you suggest factors on which I can do this comparison? (In my mind I have: functionality, fastest ...
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Does QGIS have WMS-T (WMS with time) support?
Does anyone know if there's support for WMS-T in QGIS?
Through the app I can add WMS layers, but I can't work with WMS-T (there's no place to set the time parameter).
I been going through the the ...
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Geoserver WMS tile rendering is too slow
I have following geoserver status. I have installed JAI but memory used by jai is 0 and image rendering for wms is very slow.
Is it issue with memory allocation? I am using Sql server 2008.
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How to create a WMS Service to display a geo-reference image
I currently have little experience in the opensource area and I'm guessing this is where I need to go if I want to create a WMS Service without needing ArcGIS Server. Basically my goal is to take a ...
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What is the correct way to convert a USGS Orthoimage from WorldImage format to tiled GeoTiff for GeoServer?
USGS provides different resolution orthoimage quadrangles in the WorldImage format (*.tif with an accompanying *.tfw world file). Some of these quadrangles can be used by GeoServer (2.1.0 - 2.1.2) by ...
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Disappearing Point Features in Geoserver using WMS
I have a shapefile with roughly 6,500 points worldwide in it that I am trying to serve with Geoserver 2.2.1 using WMS. All has been apparently fine with it until I implemented a filtering feature on ...
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Combine Leaflet with Geoserver WMS map
I'm not very skilled within the GIS world, however, I would like to know if it's possible to use this map:
http://wfs-kbhkort.kk.dk/k101/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&...
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How to select fields returned by GeoServer WMS GetFeatureInfo request?
I'm running simple local mapping service based on PostGIS/GeoServer/OpenLayers stack.
Following opengeo tutorial I've tied click events in OpenLayers to WMS GetFeatureInfo call using:
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Whats better for selecting? WMS or WFS
I need to select from a layer(s) and I am wondering what way I should serve the layer.
The requirements are that I need to be able to select multiple features at a time by drawing a box or polygon. ...
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List of Map Service Software [closed]
I am curious as to what GIS server software is out there. I have used a few different ones and am building a list of them. If you know of any others please mention it below because I would like to ...
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Definition of a BBOX in Web GIS
In my practice I use a lot WMS and WFS in Geoserver. I have not found a document describing the concept of a bounding box(bbox). ArcGIS has map extent properties to identify map boundary. Google Map/...
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Sentinel 2 imagery as a webservice in a leaflet or openlayers map
I'm looking for a simple solution to display the latest available Sentinel 2 imagery (true color) in a webmap, using e.g. Leaflet or OpenLayers, for instance with a WMS or a XYZ layer. I thought this ...
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Open source web map client with time sliders using WMS source
I have a web map service (WMS on geoserver). It has a current visualization which is decent. The data is divided into months currently using tabs. I would like to visualize the data using an open ...
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Converting WMS getmap request to Geotiff
I'm accessing a WMS server that doesn't provide geotiff as one of the format capabilities, but does provide PNG and KMZ.
http://tds.marine.rutgers.edu:8081/ncWMS/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=...
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Reading a WMS/ raster map with rasterio
Can I read a raster map which has been constructed in mapserver as WMS with rasterio?
I tried :
from rasterio.io import MemoryFile
def print_metadata(dataset):
print(dataset.profile)
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Solving Error " destination provider" when trying to save WMS as GeoTIFF
I'm new and I use QGIS 3.10
I would like to save the WMS output as GeoTIFF to be able to load and clip the raster by a mask layer (polygon). When I try to save the WMS output as GeoTIFF (Export--> ...
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How to solve issue with log messages panel in QGIS: "Not logging more than 100 request errors."?
I am using the following code in pyqgis to catch errors/warning from a WMS-layer, in order to trigger a repaint as soon as an error/warning is detected (based on previous question: How to catch WMS ...
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Publishing QGIS project on GeoServer?
Is there a way to prepare a project on QGIS with many layers and to publish it under WMS service on GeoServer?
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Driving Zone Computation using Web Processing Services
I am currently evaluating different OGC Services(WFS,WMS and WPS) for driving zone computation. As I am new to WPS services, I would like some suggestions regarding which OGC services to implement.
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Can ArcGIS Server WMS display a graphicslayer?
I have tried to display a graphics layer with the WMS functionality of ArcGIS Server, but I cannot see the graphics in the image of the getmap response.
I have done is manually by publishing a ...
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Prevent OpenLayers WMS layer cache by browser
I am using OpenLayers (GeoExt) with google chrome browser. All WMS layer is for live database. I have refreshed the browser at certain interval using javascript but the data is cached in browser and ...
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Accessing WMS layers of UK coal mines?
I am trying to access the WMS layers from the UK Coal Authority website. I can connect to their servers and see the raster files available but when I download them, I can only view the rasters from ...
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Seeking web page or small install GIS client to test WMS URL
I am using JMP 9, which supports WMS maps (as a client), but it doesn't seem to be working now.
Is there a web based, or small install GIS client on which I can test a WMS URL?
To clarify, I was ...
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WMS with Access Control (ACL) for different users? Or solution for thousands of points on web map?
I have a set of sites in the thousands. Not all users see same the same Sites on the map - thus ACL. Data is stored in a non-GIS database (mssql, ora, etc) and right now is retrieved with a standard ...
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Anybody know any WMS clients for Android?
I am interested in finding a project (with source) for a WMS client for Android.
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Where can I get a WMS or WFS for near-real time Wind (atmospheric) data?
I've been looking for a good operational WMS or WFS free service to access near-real time atmospheric data in QGIS, namely wind vectors. I haven't found anything good yet.
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Looking for open source component to create PDF from WMS in a web application
I want to create a PDF from WMS in a web map application.
Please can anyone recommend a robust component? I'd like free open-source under an relatively business-friendly licence (no GPL, BSD/MIT etc....
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