[GRASS-dev] improving v.in.wms

[Štěpán Turek]

Hi Vincent,

WMTS support and username/passoword would be useful. I will look at WMTS 
standard and try to implement it.

It would be very useful for testing to show me where to register for access.

Stepan



On 09/18/2012 07:53 AM, Vincent Bain wrote:
> Stepan,
>
> a short reply offlist, just to react to your improvments to r.in.wms.
> First, thanks for involving in Grass...
> Last spring I told you I was making heavy use of french cartographic
> ressources (www.geoportail.gouv.fr). Last month they set up a new wmts
> architecture (replacing a wms-c service), which allows to retrieve
> raster data such as orthoimagery, elevation data, and so on.
> Unfortunately I could not use your python addon (tell me if I'm wrong)
> because wmts queries are based on an APIkey/login/password
> authentification system.
>
> I wrote a shell script that does the job, partly running gdal tools. Of
> course it's designed for private use, very rough, not much optimized,
> but it has the ability to build sequential https requests containing the
> right login/password header.
>
> I guess it would be easy to implement that "restricted access header
> option" to your module; The thing is I ignore nearly everything of
> Python ! let me know if you are interested in developing in this
> direction. If so, I can show you where to register for access to ign web
> data services, so that you can make tests. Attached is my shell script,
> fyi.
>
> Bye,
> Vincent
>