WMS image download

Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) bartvde at XS4ALL.NL
Wed Jul 5 12:14:51 EDT 2006


A way to do this is to associate your WMS with a WCS (Mapserver supports 
both), or you can even use Geotiff as an output format for WMS.

See also:

http://www.osgis.nl/G-delivery.pdf

Best regards,
Bart

Ryan Ollerenshaw wrote:

>This is a great app but it does not allow you to download the high resolution
>.tiffs that are used to generate the images.  Are there any ways to download
>the .tiffs that are used to generat the images for a WMS?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Quoting Allan Doyle <adoyle at EOGEO.ORG>:
>
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>>http://viewer.digitalearth.gov/ is an example of how to do this.
>>
>>Each layer can be viewed individually by clicking on it in the layer
>>list. Saving that image allows you to save that layer. You can also
>>save the layer's URL.
>>
>>	Allan
>>
>>On Jul 3, 2006, at 15:52, Ryan Ollerenshaw wrote:
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>>>I am looking for a way to download the images returned from a WMS.
>>>Does anyone
>>>know a good way to go about doing this?  I would prefer to create a
>>>custom web
>>>interface that would allow the user to select the layer and long/lat
>>>boundingbox for the area that they are interested in.
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>-Ryan
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>--
>>Allan Doyle
>>+1.781.433.2695
>>adoyle at eogeo.org
>>
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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
http://www.osgis.nl



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