[mapserver-users] Accessing a different type of raster data type

[Roger André]

Frank, you rock.

Thanks for the links.

Roger
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>wrote:

> Roger André wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm curious if you could give me an idea of the level of effort this would
>> take.  I have access to a data service at work that will render an array of
>> values in response to a bbox geographic query.  I'd like the ability to
>> create a Mapserver raster Layer that uses this service as a data source, so
>> that I can populate a web map using dynamically generated data, rather than
>> pre-rendering a raster set.  How hard would it be to write a new "connector"
>> that could read this data service?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me,
>>
>
> Roger,
>
> It should be reasonable easy to add this as a new GDAL format driver,
> or alternatively as an extension of the existing "WMS" driver which
> has a "minidriver" mechanism to add new web service types beyond
> WMS.
>
> Some helpful resources:
>
> * The driver implementation tutorial:
>
>  http://www.gdal.org/gdal_drivertut.html
>
> * The WMS driver code (see mini drivers for examples of new protocols):
>
>  http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/frmts/wms/
>
> Best regards,
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