[OSGeo Africa] Free South African Aerial Imagey WMS Layer

[Solly Vuso]

Thank you Grant , you always have a way to come  up with a solution
On 24 Sep 2014 12:28 AM, "Grant Slater" <openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Very please to see others using my http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/
> site :-)
>
> I *REALLY* hate WMS! It overloads servers and is impractical to cache.
>
> But here is a unsupported WMS URL:
> http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/wms-ngi-aerial
>
> If it gets abused / overloads the server I will disable it.
> Please play nice.
> The overview layer is required for zoomed out.
>
> I'll chat to NGI to see about getting an update for the imagery.
> Anyone in Cape Town willing to collect the files for me?
>
> To see the filenames (with dates) enable the filename overlay layer
> (top right) eg:
>
> http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/?zoom=15&lat=-33.95129&lon=25.56588&layers=B0T
>
> Kind regards,
> Grant
>
>
> On 23 September 2014 12:12, Solly Vuso <sollyvuso at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi OSGEo
> >
> > I am currently using web-gis ( Mapserver,pmapper and geomoose) is it
> > possible to add this background to those applications as a wms?
> > http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/aerial-osm-org-za-tiles.xml
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Frank Sokolic <
> sokolic at worldonline.co.za>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Chlodwik,
> >>
> >> Try using the file I've attached. In QGIS go to Add Raster Layer, set
> >> files to All Files then open this file. It pulls aerial photos from the
> >> aerial.openstreetmap.org.za website.
> >>
> >> Regards, Frank.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 23/09/2014 11:00, Chlodwik Rossouw wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all
> >>>
> >>> Would anyone perhaps know of a free aerial imagery WMS layer (Highest
> >>> resolution possible coastal or national South African coverage) that I
> >>> will be able to pull into QGIS?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Chlodwik
> >>>
> >>>
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