Hi Noli, On Tue, 05. Oct 2010 at 11:58:40 +1100, Noli Sicad wrote: > > if you get your own imagery you can easily install a wms server on your > > machine and connect to it with qgis.
> I don't think WMS can do offline. This is the weakness of web mapping > services, if I am not mistaken, it piggyback on TC/IP protocol (i.e > without Internet connection is the services useless). Sure it can. It requires TCP/IP, but there always is localhost (127.0.0.1). So you can run all those services locally without an internet connection. I think that's what Giovanni meant (ie. install a WMS on the his local machine). Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-20 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
