[Mapserver-users] Finding WMS layers on the internet.

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amit S BEHERE [mailto:abehere at cs.ucsd.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 5:29 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] Finding WMS layers on the internet.
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> I am trying to find WMS services that show maps of Southern 
> California (or anywhere in the US for that matter) to include 
> in a MapServer demo. So I basically need some URLs to which I 
> can issues GetCapabilities and getMap requests and get back 
> XML (in case of getcapabilities) or maps (getmap request).I 
> am particularly interested in Weather maps (clouds etc). Can 
> anyone point me in the right direction ? I tried looking on 
> the internet, however I found sophisticated mapservices. I am 
> not interested in the interface or anything. I want to send 
> raw getmap and getcapabilities requests.
>

Here are some places where you can find WMS targets:

Components listed on GeoConnections Discovery Portal
http://geodiscover.cgdi.ca/gdp/search?action=searchForm&entryType=webService

Components listed on cgdi-dev
http://cgdi-dev.geoconnections.org/components/

Components listed on OGCNetwork
http://www.ogcnetwork.org/

Components listed on USGS.net
http://gisdata.usgs.net/

Try this WMS for weather:

http://geo.compusult.net/scripts/mapman.dll?Name=weather

Hope this helps.

..Tom
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Tom Kralidis
Systems Scientist
Environment Canada
Tel: +01-905-336-4409
http://www.ec.gc.ca/cise/


> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Amit Behere.
> UCSD.
> "Technology doesn't make your life more difficult or easy, it 
> just changes the rules"......Vishwanathan Anand
> 
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