[Qgis-community-team] Looking for a reliable free with global data wms service to mention as example in the docs

[DelazJ]

Hi,

Thanks guys for your offer and suggestions. I'll check Jeff and the
Mapserver services whether I can find something suitable for our case.

Greetings,
Harrissou

Le lun. 11 janv. 2021 à 12:42, Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com>
a écrit :

> Hi!
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 3:50 PM Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Harrissou,
>>
>> I bet Giovanni has a couple of stable services that we can use.
>>
>>
>
> I have, however I'm not sure that I can promise they will keep always
> functional for the years to come: my company could close, or I can be run
> over by a bus, or simply be sloppy and remove them by mistake. I think that
> the best solution would be to have official demo services created with QGIS
> server and hosted by QGIS. I can help setting them up, but I'm not one of
> the manitainer of the QGIS.org IT infrastructure so I will need before to
> make contact with them (Richard? Tim?).
>
> Se second best thing? use the Mapserver DEMO services:
>
> https://demo.mapserver.org/
>
> they exists since... always. They are they most reliable WMS/WFS/WCS
> testing endpoints I know. I don't think they will cease to exist anytime
> soon.
>
> Cheers!
>
> -- G --
>
>
>
>> Alexandre
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 3:44 PM DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Re,
>>>
>>> I also came across those not working urls in the training manual (
>>> https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/training_manual/online_resources/wms.html#basic-ty
>>> ):
>>> - http://196.33.85.22/cgi-bin/ZAF_CGS_Bedrock_Geology/wms
>>> - http://ogc.gbif.org:80/wms
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Harrissou
>>>
>>> Le ven. 8 janv. 2021 à 16:16, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Hi list
>>>>
>>>> I'm walking through the docs and fix (replacing or removing) a bunch of
>>>> external broken hyperlinks [0], but there is one I can't find a correct
>>>> replacement for and I need your help.
>>>>
>>>> In [1], the docs mentions
>>>> http://apps1.gdr.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/worldmin_en-ca_ows as an example
>>>> of working WMS service. Fact is that the link is unavailable years later,
>>>> and not redirected. I could find a kind of replacement (using same dataset
>>>> I think) in a US website but that relies on an ESRI app... and the service
>>>> looks quite unstable too (long to proceed, does not open every time). I've
>>>> also browsed the web but I'm tired with testing and lost.
>>>>
>>>> So, can anyone more used to these, please suggest a WMS service that:
>>>> - is freely accessible (no fees) and without constraints
>>>> - provides a data that may concern the whole world (global) - not
>>>> necessarily related to "minerals" as the previous link
>>>> - is running on an OSGeo tool
>>>> - held by an organisation or public administration
>>>>
>>>> I don't think there will be a lot of traffic on that server. No
>>>> worries...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help,
>>>> Harrissou
>>>>
>>>> [0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/pull/6429
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/training_manual/answers/answers.html#moderate-finding-a-wms-server
>>>>
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