WMS image download

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

Still brutal but maybe better way than saving WMS images through a web browser is to feed the WMS request URL to "wget" utility instead of a browser or something, with "-O" switch, if I remember right. And if you have GeoTIFF as outputformat you can use downloaded imagery with almost any GIS software immediately. Not any final solution for your users, though.

-Jukka-

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Ryan Ollerenshaw
Sent: Wed 5.7.2006 22:57
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] WMS image download
 
Quoting "Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)" <bartvde at xs4all.nl>:

> A way to do this is to associate your WMS with a WCS (Mapserver supports
> both), or you can even use Geotiff as an output format for WMS.
>

Following your instruction I can across the following that can be added to a
mapefile to add support for WCS:

OUTPUTFORMAT
    NAME GEOTIFF
    DRIVER "GDAL/GTiff"
    MIMETYPE "image/tiff"
    IMAGEMODE "BYTE"
    EXTENSION "tif"
END

When I add the above to my mapfile and then request the page through my web
browser a QuickTime frame containing the raster image is opened.  I assume that
I am moving in the right direction although I am still unclear about how to
download this image.  Any additional help would be greatly appreciated.


> Ryan Ollerenshaw wrote:
>
> >This is a great app but it does not allow you to download the high
> resolution
> >.tiffs that are used to generate the images.  Are there any ways to download
> >the .tiffs that are used to generat the images for a WMS?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Quoting Allan Doyle <adoyle at EOGEO.ORG>:
> >
> >
> >
> >>http://viewer.digitalearth.gov/ is an example of how to do this.
> >>
> >>Each layer can be viewed individually by clicking on it in the layer
> >>list. Saving that image allows you to save that layer. You can also
> >>save the layer's URL.
> >>
> >>	Allan
> >>
> >>On Jul 3, 2006, at 15:52, Ryan Ollerenshaw wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I am looking for a way to download the images returned from a WMS.
> >>>Does anyone
> >>>know a good way to go about doing this?  I would prefer to create a
> >>>custom web
> >>>interface that would allow the user to select the layer and long/lat
> >>>boundingbox for the area that they are interested in.
> >>>
> >>>Thank you,
> >>>-Ryan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>--
> >>Allan Doyle
> >>+1.781.433.2695
> >>adoyle at eogeo.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Bart van den Eijnden
> OSGIS, Open Source GIS
> http://www.osgis.nl
>