[mapguide-users] WMS now in Google Earth

[Chris Tallman]

Andy,
 
I'm being prompted for a password.  Do you know what I'm missing?  I've
tried different passwords and nothing seems to work.
 
Chris

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From: Andy Morsell [mailto:amorsell at spatialgis.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:10 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapguide-users] WMS now in Google Earth



For those of you who follow Google Earth happenings, the latest release
of beta 4 supports WMS as image overlay sources.  It's very cool, pretty
easy to use and even includes a number of pre-reloaded WMS URL's.  Our
own DM Solutions server is even listed (it's the last one in the list -
easy to find).  If you have a previous version of GE, you have to
uninstall it prior to installing this version.  This blog entry has some
details on how to use this feature:
http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/09/wms_how_does_it.html
<http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/09/wms_how_does_it.html> 

I tried it with some WMS layers from MapGuide Open Source and Enterprise
and it worked reasonably well.  You may have to manually tweak the WMS
request parameters manually.  For instance, change FORMAT=image/gif to
FORMAT=image/png or transparency doesn't seem to work.  One thing to
watch out for, MapGuide only supports single layer WMS requests so do
not try to add more than one layer to the single overlay definition or
it will fail.

Attached is a KMZ placemark of the Sheboygan hydrography layer from
Autodesk's demo server.  If you want to work with the other layers there
just add a new WMS Server in the GE dialog using
http://data.mapguide.com/mapguide/mapagent/mapagent.fcgi
<http://data.mapguide.com/mapguide/mapagent/mapagent.fcgi>  <<...>> 

Andy Morsell, P.E. 
Spatial Integrators, Inc. 
http://www.SpatialGIS.com <http://www.SpatialGIS.com>  

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