[mapserver-users] WMS in Google Earth

Josh Hevenor jhevenor at rogers.com
Tue Sep 29 10:28:34 PDT 2009


Thanks Milo (and Bob)

Here is what I have as far as mapfile goes. This is from a dev machine
not open to the public but I can supply a getCapabilities response as
well. Looking at it like this I bet I can remove a bunch of the
scalebar, querymap stuff....

MAP
  DEBUG OFF #set off for production purposes!
  NAME "COMPANY" 
  STATUS ON
  EXTENT -146.4 52.161287067696 -93.6 97.7368329192244 #unprojected
   
  SIZE 684 561 #NB: overwritten in mapserverparam.js
  SHAPEPATH "D:\msMap_data\Export" 
  SYMBOLSET "mapserverApp.symbols"
  FONTSET "mapserverApp.fonts"
  TRANSPARENT ON
  UNITS dd
  IMAGETYPE aggpng24

OUTPUTFORMAT
  NAME aggpng24
  DRIVER AGG/PNG
  MIMETYPE "image/png"
  IMAGEMODE RGB
  EXTENSION "png"
END
###########################################################################################
# WEB INTERFACE (including WMS enabling metadata)

  WEB
    MAXSCALE 40000000 
    MINSCALE 100     
    IMAGEPATH "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\tmp\"
    IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
    LOG "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\tmp\log\MS_ERRORS.LOG"
    HEADER "header.html"
    FOOTER "templates/footer.html"
    TEMPLATE "index.html"
    ERROR "/wms/templates/error.html"
    EMPTY "/wms/templates/empty.html"
   
    METADATA    
     WMS_ONLINERESOURCE 'http://ws7/wms/wms.php?'
     #WMS_SRS  'EPSG:4326 EPSG:43204 EPSG:2580 EPSG:26908 EPSG:26909
EPSG:26910 EPSG:26911 EPSG:26912 EPSG:26913 EPSG:26914'  
     OWS_SRS  'EPSG:4326 EPSG:43204 EPSG:2580 EPSG:26908 EPSG:26909
EPSG:26910 EPSG:26911 EPSG:26912 EPSG:26913 EPSG:26914'  
     #WMS_ACCESSCONSTRAINTS 'none'
     #OWS_TITLE 'COMPANY Web GIS Portal'
     WMS_FEATURE_INFO_MIME_TYPE 'text/html'
     #WMS_ABSTRACT 'This Web Map Service broadcasts metadata about
COMPANY Publications available for review and download.'     
     # ###
     # Increment when new data is available
     # ###
     ows_updatesequence '1'
     # ####
     OWS_TITLE 'msMap WMS Service'
     OWS_ABSTRACT 'COMPANYs new online spatial tool for creating maps,
querying, and downloading our large database of mineral occurrences,
publications, exploration reports, and other references to geology and
mineral exploration in the NWT.'
     OWS_KEYWORDLIST 'GEOLOGY,CHEMISTRY'
     OWS_FEES 'GRATUIT-FREE'
     OWS_ACCESSCONSTRAINTS 'NONE'
     OWS_CONTACTORGANIZATION 'NWT Business Office'
     OWS_SERVICE_ONLINERESOURCE 'http://ws7/wms/wms.php?'
     OWS_CONTACTPERSON 'co/ Librarian'
     OWS_CONTACTPOSITION 'Librarian'     
     OWS_CONTACTVOICETELEPHONE '+01-555-555-5555'
     OWS_CONTACTFACSIMILETELEPHONE '+01-555-555-5555'
     ows_addresstype 'Mailing'
     ows_address 'Location Business Office'
     ows_address 'BOX 1500'
     ows_city 'Smallville'
     ows_stateorprovince 'Prov'
     ows_postcode 'X1X 1X1'
     ows_country 'Canada'
     ows_contactelectronicmailaddress 'COMPANY at email.com'
     OWS_hoursofservice '8:30-4:30 Local Time'
     ows_contactinstructions ''
     ows_role 'Librarian'     
    END  #METADATA   
  END #WEB



  REFERENCE
    IMAGE "refmap2.jpg"  
    EXTENT  -146.4 52.161287067696 -93.6 97.7368329192244
    SIZE 80 120
    STATUS ON   
    COLOR -1 -1 -1
    OUTLINECOLOR 254 219 67
    MINBOXSIZE 10
    MAXBOXSIZE 120
    MARKER "star"
    MARKERSIZE 10
  END


  PROJECTION    
    "init=EPSG:4326"
  END


  LEGEND
    STATUS ON
    #KEYSIZE 18 12
    KEYSIZE 24 16
    #IMAGECOLOR 235 250 235
    LABEL
      TYPE BITMAP
      SIZE MEDIUM
      COLOR 0 0 89
    END
    POSITION UR 
    TEMPLATE "legend.html" #doesn't really exist
  END


  SCALEBAR
    STATUS ON
    POSITION LR
    POSTLABELCACHE TRUE
    COLOR 0 0 0
    OUTLINECOLOR 166 202 240
    TRANSPARENT ON
    UNITS KILOMETERS
    INTERVALS 4
    SIZE 200 6
    STYLE 1
    LABEL
      SIZE TINY
      COLOR 0 0 0
      ANTIALIAS TRUE
      #OUTLINECOLOR 254 219 67
      #SHADOWCOLOR 166 202 240
      #SHADOWSIZE 3 3
    END
  END

  QUERYMAP
    STATUS ON
    STYLE Hilite #shows selected features in highlight colour
    COLOR  254 219 67  # 0 0 255
  END


#
# LAYER DEFINITIONS
#

LAYER
  NAME 'References'
  DATA '4326References'
  STATUS on
  DUMP true # VERY IMPORTANT atribute
 
  TYPE Polygon
  TRANSPARENCY 100
  TOLERANCE 10
  TOLERANCEUNITS pixels
  HEADER "templates\referencesheader.html"
  TEMPLATE "templates\references.html"
 
  METADATA
   OWS_SRS 'EPSG:4326'
   OWS_TITLE 'References'
   WMS_FEATURE_INFO_MIME_TYPE 'application/vnd.ogc.gml'
   gml_include_items "all"
   gml_exclude_items "geometry"
   wfs_featureid 'C_REFER_ID'  
   ows_title 'References'
  END #METADATA
 
  PROJECTION 
  'init=EPSG:4326'
  END  
 
CLASSITEM 'CLASSCODE'
 
   CLASS
     NAME 'COMPANY Publications'
     EXPRESSION '4'
     STYLE
      #COLOR 150 180 250
      OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
      #WIDTH 1.5
     END #STYLE
  END #CLASS
 
  CLASS
     NAME 'Industry Reports A'
     EXPRESSION '1'
     STYLE
      #COLOR 150 180 250
      OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
      #WIDTH 1.5
     END #STYLE
  END #CLASS

 
     CLASS
       NAME 'Industry Reports B'
       EXPRESSION '21'
       STYLE
        #COLOR 150 180 250
        OUTLINECOLOR 0 255 0
        #WIDTH 1.5
       END #STYLE
  END #CLASS
 
     CLASS
       NAME 'Misc References'
       EXPRESSION '0'
       STYLE
        #COLOR 150 180 250
        OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 255
        #WIDTH 1.5
       END #STYLE
  END #CLASS
 
END #LAYER

END #End of Mapfile


Milo van der Linden wrote:
> Hello Josh,
>
> I have three succesfully hosted wms layers withing Google Earth. It
> probably has something to do with the image type not being supported or
> wms parameters missing.
>
> If you want me to help you can send me the metadata and the map section
> snippets of your mapfile.
>
> Josh Hevenor schreef:
>   
>> I'm wondering if anyone has had success viewing their mapserver WMS
>> services through Google Earth? I can manually enter a GetMap request and
>> see the image but when I try to list my layers in the Refresh->WMS
>> Parameters section I get an error message stating that "This MWS server
>> has no layers which can be rendered by Google Earth"   
>>
>> Are there any common trip-ups that others have experienced?  I can post
>> more details if required...
>>
>> josh
>>
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