No, issue still stands that GDAL is one way to consume WMS as a layer, and I can't think of any others.
Dane On May 6, 2010, at 5:08 PM, John Mitchell wrote: > 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
