[mapserver-users] Can Map Server serve non WMS services?

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Fri Jul 20 10:34:50 PDT 2012


Hi Sowmya,

Since you are making a non-standard WMS request GetProfileView, i doubt 
that anyone here knows what that does, and as such, is probably not 
going to be able to help you. You need to provide a detailed description 
of what GetProfileView does, like what are the inputs, what is the 
expect output, and how is it generated.

That said, someone programmed that up on your side and it is likely that 
they would have to program support for that using mapserver as a tools 
set and maybe using something like mapscript. In general, mapserver is a 
map rendering and querying engine that has some additional 
geo-processing tools and access to most core features for programming 
using mapscript.

Hope this helps,
   Steve W

On 7/20/2012 1:00 PM, Sowmya Tiramdasu wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
>   Thanks for the prompt reply. The request url for my service function is as
> follows :
>
> http://localhost:8080/sample?FORMAT=image/jpeg&EXCEPTIONS=INIMAGE&BGCOLOR=0x
> 000000&LAYERS=Points,Boundaries&STYLES=GroundElevation,Red&SERVICE=WMS&VERSI
> ON=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetProfileView&SRS=EPSG:26910&LEFT_XY=491646.2272727273,545
> 8251.454545454&RIGHT_XY=492102.95454545453,5458268.909090909&DEPTH=20&SHOW_D
> RAPELINE=FALSE&SHOW_GRATICULE=TRUE&WIDTH=833&HEIGHT=222&COLORIZATION=Classif
> ication&FILTER=All
>
> I guess this should give you some idea. Let me know if you want to know any
> additional details.
>
> So can you please give me an outline how I can use Map server to consume the
> image coming from my above service? Also can you provide sample map file
> entries to get this served up.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sowmya.
> _______________________________
> Sowmya Tiramdasu
> QCoherent Software
> 9668 Madison Blvd., Suite 202
> Madison, AL 35758
> (256) 461-8289 Telephone
> (256) 461-8249 Fax
> www.geocue.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lime, Steve D (DNR) [mailto:Steve.Lime at state.mn.us]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 10:16 AM
> To: Sowmya Tiramdasu; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Can Map Server serve non WMS services?
>
> We would have to know more about what the extensions do and how they are
> implemented to comment more in detail. There are certainly options. For
> example, you could use MapScript OWS support and develop a custom service
> that way. Another option would be to use GetFeatureInfo request paired with
> different responses (via template perhaps) to change the nature of the
> information returned.
>
> Depending on how the extensions are implemented you might also be able to
> support the different response types using mod-rewrite or something like
> that.
>
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Sowmya
> Tiramdasu
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 9:32 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Can Map Server serve non WMS services?
>
> Hi,
>
>   We have a wms server. It also has some extensions . There are three extra
> calls( like GetProfileView etc) other than getCapabilities, GetMap and
> GetFeatureInfo calls. Can I use map server to serve up my none wms calls?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sowmya.
> _______________________________
> Sowmya Tiramdasu
> QCoherent Software
> 9668 Madison Blvd., Suite 202
> Madison, AL 35758
> (256) 461-8289 Telephone
> (256) 461-8249 Fax
> www.geocue.com
>
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