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Desktop WMS - A minimalistic local WMS service serving (remote) OpenStreetMap and (local) image maps.

See also WorldFileTool, WMS (de), Georeferenzieren von Bildern (de).

About DesktopWMS

Many GIS/geodata editors nowadays include the Web Map Server protocol (WMS) from OGC, but often they lack support of free map services like OpenStreetMap and local images. OpenStreetMap serves as a free background map and it's cached, tiled and remote. Local images need to be georeferenced and aligned to north. See WorldFileTool for more information about georeferencing.

DesktopWMS is based on Peter Damen's 'GoogleWMS' software.

DesktopWMS has been reported to work with the following GIS and map viewer:

• JOSM
• OpenJUMP
• JMapDesk

Features

Basic features:

• Runs locally in the background as a server.
• Can be accessed as a WMS service version 1.1.1.
• Contains the following predefined layers:
  • OpenStreetMap from remote OSM tile server (requires internet access).
• Serves local images:
  • 'Ad-hoc' image layer; requires one image file (no tiling) and a World file as configuration (use e.g. WorldFileTool to georeference]).
  • Supported formats: jpg, gif, png.

Ideas (not scheduled):

• Tiled local image layer; requires tiled image file in local subdirectory.
• Adding layers like 'Google Maps Satellite' or 'Yahoo Maps!'.

Usage

Demo/test with WMS calls (default port is 8998):

• Actual (beta) version:
  • GetMap: [1]
  • Optional GetCapabilities: [2]
• Next release:
  • GetCapabilities: [3]
  • GetMap with layer name 'osm' (= OpenStreetMap): [4]
  • GetMap with layer name 'myimage.jpg' (= local image file in ./data directory of DesktopWMS): [5]

Download

• tbd.