Re: [Qlandkartegt-users] WMS Support in Version 1.0

[Oliver E. <oli...@gm...>]

On 01/28/2011 06:52 PM, Moritz wrote:
> Hhm, thanks for the tips. 
> I was hoping that there is a three-word-explanation for getting the
> values ;-)

If it would be that simple there would be a nice dialog with a
lucky-go-happy button. In fact that is the code I silenced with a
compiler flag. After it became obvious that there is no simple solution
and there is no WMS service worth to take up with the painstaking work
to ship around all the pitfalls. WMS is pretty nerdy stuff.

Oliver


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> Moritz
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> Am Freitag, den 28.01.2011, 17:57 +0100 schrieb Oliver Eichler:
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>> I really recommend you to google for the WMS protocol and to get accustomed to what it is and how it works. One of the first hits at Google is
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>> http://www.demis.nl/home/pages/wms/docs/OpenGISWMS.htm
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>> A good place to start. And with a little exercise in reading you will learn the magic string to query the capabilities of a server.
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>> http://www.geodaten.bayern.de/ogc/getogc.cgi?request=GetCapabilities&version=1.0.0
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>> WMS is a you-have-to-know-what-you-are-doing thing that demands skills in doing research on your own. ;)
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>> HTH
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>> Oliver
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