[mapguide-users] WMS now in Google Earth

[Andy Morsell]

The .fcgi URL is the WMS Server URL and you don't open it directly in a
browser. You add that as a new WMS Server in the "Web Mapping Service
Parameters" Google Earth dialog box.  Once you do that, it will show you the
layers that are on that WMS Server (MGOS) that are exposed via WMS.

 

Andy 


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From: Chris Tallman [mailto:ctallman at innomap.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 4:46 AM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] WMS now in Google Earth


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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