Bundleing WMS Services

Michael Schulz mschulz at WEBGIS.DE
Wed Jan 16 01:19:02 PST 2008


Hi Christian,

keep in mind that you loose the option to query that layer with a
GetFeatureInfo request. This request cannot be cascaded with mapserver
at the moment.

Cheers, Michael


2008/1/16, Reinoud Bokhorst <bokhorst at argoss.nl>:
> Hi Christian,
> You can use CONNECTIONTYPE WMS in your mapfile for a layer, f.eks:
>
>   LAYER
>      NAME "external_layer"
>      CONNECTION  "http://some/wms/server?default&args&"
>      CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
>      ...
>      ...
>   END
>
> Here is more info: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_client
>
>
> Reinoud
>
>
> Christian Braun wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> > is it possible to load foreign WMS Services and serve them
> > simultaneously within the same mapfile?
> > I wondered because I want to serve my collaboraters a single WMS for
> > e.g. displaying in QGIS where they can find all WMS I referenced before.
> > The sense of this task would be to avoid a lot of typing of  WMS
> > adresses for my colleages.
> >
> > Any ideas or hints?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Christian
>


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