Matplotlib folks, Probably the two most common web map services are the OGC-standard WMS service and ESRI's non-standard custom REST service.
I was looking for how to do WMS request in basemap and found "testarcgisimage.py" which uses the "arcgisimage" method. It look like there was a "wmsimage" method in Basemap that was folded into a "arcgisimage" method? I think users might find that confusing (at least I did). Should these methods be different? Also for the WMS request, we want to make sure that it's possible to specify ELEVATION and TIME as parameters, since these are necessary to require WMS from > 2D datasets (e.g. time series of remote sensing data, 4D atmospheric and oceanic models, etc). 1. Example of ArcGIS REST request: http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/NatGeo_World_Map/MapServer/export?bbox=-1,0,-1,0&bboxSR=4326&imageSR=4326&size=600,800&dpi=96&format=png32&f=image 2. Example of OGC-compliant WMS request, here requesting from temperature data from NAM at 2 m above ground (ELEVATION=2) and for a specified time (TIME=2012-10-09T00%3A00%3A00.000Z). Motherlode only keeps data around for a week or so, so if the URL below stops working, try a date that is more current. http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/wms/fmrc/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_12km/NCEP-NAM-CONUS_12km-noaaport_best.ncd?LAYERS=Temperature_height_above_ground&ELEVATION=2&TIME=2012-10-09T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&TRANSPARENT=true&STYLES=boxfill%2Frainbow&CRS=EPSG%3A4326&COLORSCALERANGE=271.2%2C308&NUMCOLORBANDS=20&LOGSCALE=false&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetMap&EXCEPTIONS=XML&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&BBOX=-118.82657218194,22.15128433311,-108.63100087893,32.34685563612&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256 Thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard P. Signell USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd. Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
