Dane, A number of months ago I asked about having a WMS call within an osm.xml (mapfile) and you replied with the below email. Now that version 0.7.1 of mapnik is available does it have an easier way of doing a WMS call within a mapfile?
Thanks, John On 11/10/09, Dane Springmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed you can, although I've not been able to set up correctly yet, > due to lack of time and attention (hopefully only that!). > > The idea would be that you read in the WMS feed as as bitmap using the > GDAL WMS minidriver: > > http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms.html > > I got as far as the image showing up, but slightly shifted to the > north, so I may just need to tweak the params. I've only worked on > this programmatically when hastily trying to add support for WMS > layers within Quantumnik > (http://bitbucket.org/springmeyer/quantumnik/src/tip/sync.py#cl-553 > ), so trying to set up one layer might be a bit more feasible. > > Let us know how it goes. > > Dane > > > > On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:54 AM, John Mitchell wrote: > >> Within an osm.xml (mapfile) can I include a layer that refers to an >> external WMS feed in addition to the usual layers referring to shape >> files and database tables. >> >> Thanks, >> >> John >> >> -- >> John J. Mitchell >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapnik-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > > -- John J. Mitchell _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
