[Gdal-dev] Building superoverlay from remote WMS host

[Jonah Duckles]

Try TileCache at:
http://tilecache.org/

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM, doug_nebert <ddnebert at usgs.gov> wrote:
>
> In support of WMS operated in slower parts of the Internet, and in the
> interest of providing a view of the maps in a cached "superoverlay" for
> Google Earth and other savvy KML clients, has anyone developed a script that
> could be aimed at a remote WMS host and patiently extract a multi-layered
> tile scheme and save the tiled data and KML to the invoking host?
>
> I see that GDAL has some support for extracting/reading from WMS:
>  http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms.html
>
> and a python utility for writing to kml with what I believe are super
> overlays:
>  http://www.gdal.org/gdal2tiles.html
>
> But has anyone considered putting these together with a configuration file
> to build such a solution? Anyone interested in sharing a prototype?
>
> Doug.
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