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[udig-devel] Re: using a funky WMS service ...
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Richard,
Thanks. This WMS is created out of the distributed databases that are
part of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (gbif.org). So,
they probably do have thousands of species, and growing every day
(they have upwards of 90 million "specimen" records at this time). I
can see why having each as a layer would be tricky.
I tried it in MapServer and it works fine. Anyways, thanks.
-Emilio
> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:27:19 -0800
> From: Richard Gould <rgould@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [udig-devel] using a funky WMS service ...
> To: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS
> <udig-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Wow, that *is* a funky WMS.
>
> Currently there is no way to specify the value for the layer name in
> uDig. This would require a specialized plug-in built specifically for
> talking to this WMS.
>
> Basically there would need an action that asks the user for a layer name
> and then adds it to the service in the catalog.
>
> How many species does the WMS support? Why don't they just publish each
> as a layer? If there are lots (maybe in the thousands), they should just
> publish one layer and then provide access to the feature type.. then the
> client could style accordingly..
>
> Craziness.
>
> Richard
>
> Emilio Mayorga wrote:
> > Has anyone tried to load into uDig a species layer from the Canadian
> > Biodiv. Information Facility? The web site is here:
> > http://www.cbif.gc.ca/mapdata/cbif/gbifwms_e.php
> > The GetCapabilities document:
> > http://www.cbif.gc.ca/mapdata/cbif/gbifwms.php?VERSION=1.1.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
> >
> > What's funky is that the layers are built dynamically from a species
> > scientific name; they're not pre-defined in the GetCapabilities
> > document. Here's a skeleton for a GetMap request:
> > http://www.cbif.gc.ca/mapdata/cbif/gbifwms.php?VERSION=1.1.0&REQUEST=GetMap&Layers=Sinapis%2Barvensis
> >
> > You can find a complete, working example in the cbif site.
> >
> > Is this service not a fully standard WMS service?
> >
> > Thanks for your help. I'm using 1.06 on Windows 2000. Cheers,
> >
> > -Emilio Mayorga
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