Comments on: OpenStreetMap as WMS

By: Jaakl

Jaakl — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:57:08 +0000

These http://www.osmwms.de do not work in MapInfo Professional 8.5 either. It shows initially something in Bremen in very general level, but zooming in brings only to white images. Usually I have no issues opening different WMS servers with the software, when the servers are properly configured.

By: mikeE63

mikeE63 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:32:37 +0000

Look at http://www.osmwms.de

By: jaakl

jaakl — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:30:33 +0000

Btw, the WMS does not work with MapInfo Professional. It gives error something like WFS (sic!) SERVICE parameter is missing. I guess MapInfo gets confused with the long URL with a lot of extra parameters, service URL should be wrapped to a shorter format without map file and other MapServer-specific WMS parameters (I’ve seen that which are problematic with several clients).

By: Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK » This week has been mostly about web-mapping

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:42:02 +0000

[...] Openstreetmap WMS data from Wheregroup: Comes in free and paid-for flavours though details on pricing and terms of service for the commercial version were sketchy on a first skim of the website. This could be really handy to use as background mapping data for web maps, although there are issues of completeness (as always) and it probably needs running through our own mapserver to sort out the styling. This is definitely a goer- I just need to figure out which of the 50 or so layers they publish are really necessary and at what scale. And some kind of completeness metric, so we know how reliable the data is for a given area… [...]