[QGIS Commit] r10626 - docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide
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Wed Apr 22 15:49:17 EDT 2009
Author: sholl
Date: 2009-04-22 15:49:17 -0400 (Wed, 22 Apr 2009)
New Revision: 10626
Modified:
docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex
Log:
First changes to the OGC-chapter
More to come
Modified: docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex
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--- docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex 2009-04-22 18:54:45 UTC (rev 10625)
+++ docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex 2009-04-22 19:49:17 UTC (rev 10626)
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
OGC services are increasingly being used to exchange geospatial data between
different GIS implementations and data stores. QGIS can now deal with three of the
above specifications, being SFS (though support of the PostgreSQL / PostGIS
-data provider, see Section \ref{label_postgis}); WFS and WMS as a client.
+data provider, see Section \ref{label_postgis}), WFS and WMS as a client.
\subsection{WMS Client}\label{sec:ogc-wms}\index{WMS!client}\index{OGC!WMS!client}\index{rasters!WMS}
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
add some servers to play with by clicking the \button{Add default servers}
button. This will add at least three WMS servers for you to use, including the NASA (JPL)
WMS server. To define a new WMS server in the \tab{Server Connections} section,
-select \button{New}. Then enter in the parameters to connect to your desired
+select \button{New}. Then enter the parameters to connect to your desired
WMS server, as listed in table \ref{tab:wms_connection_parms}:
\begin{table}[ht]\index{WMS!client!connection parameters}
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@
Choose menu \mainmenuopt{Settings} > \dropmenuopttwo{mActionOptions}{Options}
and click on the \tab{Proxy} tab. There you can add your proxy-settings
and enable them by setting the \checkbox{Use proxy for web access}.
+Make sure that you select the correct proxy-type from the
+\dropmenuopt{Proxy type} dropdown menu.
Once the new WMS Server connection has been created, it will be
preserved for future QGIS sessions.
@@ -107,10 +109,9 @@
\end{Tip}
Table \ref{tab:wms_example_urls} shows some example WMS URLs to get you started.
-These links were last checked in December 2006, but could change at any time:
+These links were last checked in April 2009, but could change at any time:
%FIXME: WMS URLs should be checked again and maybe extended in QGIS
-
\begin{table}[ht]\index{WMS!remote server!URL!examples}
\centering
\caption{Example Public WMS URLs}\label{tab:wms_example_urls}\medskip
@@ -118,9 +119,10 @@
\hline \textbf{Name} & \textbf{URL} \\
\hline Atlas of Canada & http://atlas.gc.ca/cgi-bin/atlaswms\_en? \\
\hline DEMIS & http://www2.demis.nl/wms/wms.asp?wms=WorldMap\& \\
-\hline Geoscience Australia & http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/getmap.pl?dataset=national \\
+\hline Geoscience Australia & http://www.ga.gov.au/wms/getmap?dataset=national\& \\
\hline NASA JPL OnEarth & http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi? \\
-\hline QGIS Users & http://qgis.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/maps/main.map\& \\
+% \hline QGIS Users & http://qgis.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/maps/main.map\& \\
+\hline QGIS Users & http://linfiniti.com:8080/geoserver/wms? \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
@@ -132,7 +134,7 @@
Once you have successfully filled in your parameters you can select the
\button{Connect}
button to retrieve the capabilities of the selected server. This includes the Image encoding,
-Layers, Layer Styles, and Projections. Since this
+Layers, Layer Styles and Projections. Since this
is a network operation, the speed of the response depends on the quality of your network
connection to the WMS server. While downloading data from the WMS server, the download progress
is visualized in the left bottom of the WMS Plugin dialog.
@@ -167,7 +169,7 @@
}
\end{Tip}
-\minisec{Layers}
+\minisec{Layers} \label{ogc-wms-layers}
The \tab{Layers} section lists the layers available from the selected
WMS server. You may notice that some layers are expandible, this means
@@ -201,12 +203,17 @@
\end{Tip}
\minisec{Coordinate Reference System}
-\index{WMS!CRS}\index{WMS!coordinate reference system}
-\index{OGC!CRS}\index{OGC!coordinate reference system}
+\index{WMS!CRS}
+\index{WMS!coordinate reference system}
+\index{OGC!CRS}
+\index{OGC!coordinate reference system}
\index{Projections!WMS}
-\index{Projections!CRS}\index{Projections!coordinate reference system}
-\index{CRS}\index{coordinate reference system}
-\index{SRS}\index{Projections!SRS}
+\index{Projections!CRS}
+\index{Projections!coordinate reference system}
+\index{CRS}
+\index{coordinate reference system}
+\index{SRS}
+\index{Projections!SRS}
A Coordinate Reference System (CRS) is the OGC terminology for a QGIS Projection.
@@ -223,7 +230,7 @@
\begin{Tip}[ht]\caption{\textsc{WMS Projections}}
\qgistip{For best results, make the WMS layer the first layer
-you add in the project. This allows the project
+you add to your project. This allows the project
projection to inherit the CRS you used to render the WMS layer.
On-the-fly projection (see Section \ref{sec:projection-specifying})
can then be used to fit any subsequent
@@ -234,6 +241,9 @@
}
\end{Tip}
+% FIXME:
+% Adding a new section to the server-search tab.
+%
\subsubsection{Using the Identify Tool}\label{sec:ogc-wms-identify}
\index{WMS!identify}
@@ -249,8 +259,6 @@
The formatting of this text is dependent on the particular
WMS server used.
-% FIXME: GetFeatureInfo-Requests are done here?
-
\subsubsection{Viewing Properties}\label{sec:ogc-wms-properties}\index{WMS!properties}
\index{rasters!properties}
@@ -431,6 +439,12 @@
could be, that you might experience random behavior
and crashes. You can look forward to improvements in a future version of the plugin.
+This means that only WFS 1.0.0 is supported. At this point there have not
+been many test against over WFS versions implemented in other WFS-servers.
+If you encounter problems with any other WFS-server, please do not
+hesitate to contacting the development team. Please refer to Section
+l\ref{abel_helpsupport} for further information about the mailinglists.
+
\begin{Tip}[ht]\caption{\textsc{Finding WMS and WFS Servers}}
\qgistip{You can find additional WMS and WFS servers by using Google or your
favorite search engine. There are a number of lists with public URLs, some
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