Re: [Matplotlib-users] Accessing WMS and ESRI REST services in Matplotlib

[Jeff W. <jef...@no...>]

On 10/10/12 2:38 PM, klo uo wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Rich Signell wrote:
>
>      It look like there was a "wmsimage" method in Basemap that was folded
>     into a "arcgisimage" method?
>
>
> IIRC, it was named like that in the test cycle, then renamed correctly 
> to arcgis
> I made my first step in adding WMS method: 
> https://gist.github.com/b05f1704127accc0a0da
>
> But I did not continue as, I saw no one interested and there were tons 
> of non-working WMS servers, and those that do work were only US
>
> You can install basemap with by adding that function, and provide 
> additional parameters options.
> It worked fine when I tested it
>

I wonder whether it would be better to use OWSlib 
(http://geopython.github.com/OWSLib/) for OGS/WMS support, instead of 
trying to roll our own solution.  It only has ElementTree as a 
dependency.  Klo - would you be interested in rewriting your wmsimage 
method using OWSlib?  I bet it would simplify the code quite a bit.

-Jeff

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