How to bring your own content to Virtual Earth (Part 7)

<p>When we started to overlay custom tile layer on Virtual Earth we have been using MapCruncher first to create a static, i.e. pre-rendered, tile source. In the following part we became more dynamic and cut static images on the fly. Now we are looking at the 'Web Map Service'. This is a common standard which has been specified by the <a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms">Open Geospatial Consortium</a>. A lot of geographic information has been made available on the internet through this service and most GIS server-components expose such a service. In many cases it would be a huge benefit if you can make these information which have usually been prepared by GIS-specialists available to a broader audience. The Web Map Service returns geographic information in an image format so it should be possible to take these information and create a custom tile layer for Virtual Earth. <p><strong>Creating Dynamic Tile-Layer from OGC-compliant WMS</strong> <p>Like with the ad-hoc tile-cutting in the previous posting, the Virtual Earth part will be the same again but rather than pointing to a virtual directory on your web server we will just point to a web service which consumes in turn the WMS. <p>I will be lazy again and recycle one of my old papers instead of writing it all over again. The link below will guide you to the documentation: <p><iframe style="border-right:#dde5e9 1px solid;padding-right:0px;border-top:#dde5e9 1px solid;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:3px;border-left:#dde5e9 1px solid;width:240px;padding-top:0px;border-bottom:#dde5e9 1px solid;height:66px;background-color:#ffffff" marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 src="http://cid-42e1f70205ec8a96.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Integrating WMS in VE.pdf" frameborder=0 scrolling=no></iframe> <p>A sample application including source code is available <a href="http://mappointemea.members.winisp.net/WMS/Default.aspx">here</a>. <p><a href="http://blufiles.storage.msn.com/y1pLfDzppuxasjl6bAROsuZXLIWouKbuF_9k5maCNnpRxC6C4C 6klUB0FEbisDuYW2nosUW74yk1l4?PARTNER=WRITER"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px" height=231 alt=26-small src="http://blufiles.storage.msn.com/y1pLfDzppuxasiIrb0_TwZNovCQOtYscCmdh_Kd_INTA044y8P 0O6hNUqLp9FIZuKZ4hQMhv-JQrNg?PARTNER=WRITER" width=404 border=0></a> <div style="padding-right:0px;display:inline;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Virtual Earth" rel=tag>Virtual Earth</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Tile Layer" rel=tag>Tile Layer</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/OGC" rel=tag>OGC</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Open Geospatial Consortium" rel=tag>Open Geospatial Consortium</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/WMS" rel=tag>WMS</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Web Map Service" rel=tag>Web Map Service</a></div><img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=4819404664324524694&page=RSS%3a+How+to+bring+your+own+content+to+Virtu al+Earth+(Part+7)&referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""><img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&NA=1149&PI=88469&RF=&DI=3919&PS=85545&TP=johanneskebeck.spaces.live.com&GT1=JohannesKebeck">

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