| James_Macgill |
| (Tourist) |
| 07/06/05 01:23 PM |
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NASA and DEMIS world maps via WMS reflector
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(I just tried to post this and nothing happend, so trying again....)
I have setup a reflector so that GE can access WMS servers, for now it reflects the DEMIS world map server and a NASA server.
Add the following as a network link with View-Based Refesh enabled:
http://www.geovista.psu.edu/kml/kml2wms.jsp
For a discussion of the scrip involved see the KML forum.
James
(Seer: Added network link as an attachment)
(Had to take the NASA link out for now, hope to bring it back up tomoorow. Demis is still fine - James)
seer
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| (Master Chronicler) |
| 07/06/05 01:45 PM |
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Re: NASA and DEMIS world maps via WMS reflector
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James,
This is wonderful! Any chance that you could split these into two server requests, one for the NASA image layer and one for DEMIS? That way a user could select the one of interest (in my case, DEMIS shaded relief) and not have it overlayed by the other...
Perhaps a server selection string, like is used in the Flikr network link:
http://www.geobloggers.com/makeXML.cfm
for the first one, and,
http://www.geobloggers.com/makeXML.cfm?geLatest=true
for the second.
Something like:
http://www.geovista.psu.edu/kml/kml2wms.jsp?database=DEMIS
http://www.geovista.psu.edu/kml/kml2wms.jsp?database=NASA
or some such.
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ink_polaroid
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| (Sysop) |
| 07/06/05 01:49 PM |
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Re: NASA and DEMIS world maps via WMS reflector
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Nice.
Here's a tip: if you set the visibility for the two child folders to 0, then when the user switches one of them off, that decision should be retained across refreshes. (As it is now, both folders reactivate on refresh.)
| James_Macgill |
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| 07/06/05 02:58 PM |
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Re: NASA and DEMIS world maps via WMS reflector
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I'll add some improvements tomorrow, for now I've had to take the NASA server out as it had stoped working
I don't have access to the server from home so I can't do any more improvements right now but I don't think it will take too long to do. One problem I have is that Path_Info is disabled for jsp and I'm not sure yet what will happen with double ? marks.
i.e. http://address?server=demis?bbox=10,20,20,30
Look to some more servers and more configurability tomorrow...
James