Bundleing WMS Services

Reinoud Bokhorst bokhorst at ARGOSS.NL
Wed Jan 16 03:45:53 EST 2008


Hi Christian,
You can use CONNECTIONTYPE WMS in your mapfile for a layer, f.eks:

  LAYER
     NAME "external_layer"
     CONNECTION  "http://some/wms/server?default&args&"
     CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
     ...
     ...
  END

Here is more info: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_client


Reinoud


Christian Braun wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> is it possible to load foreign WMS Services and serve them
> simultaneously within the same mapfile?
> I wondered because I want to serve my collaboraters a single WMS for
> e.g. displaying in QGIS where they can find all WMS I referenced before.
> The sense of this task would be to avoid a lot of typing of  WMS
> adresses for my colleages.
> 
> Any ideas or hints?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Christian



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