Aggregating remote map services with local cascading WMS server
Tomáš Brunclík · 2007
Abstract: Map servers are mostly used to publish data owned by an organization to the Internet. In this paper we discuss possibilities of map server use in the opposite direction, where cascading OGC WMS map server on local network is used to aggregate and standardize access to several remote map services. This approach allows not only simplified access to selection of most used map services from one virtual source, but also to change many parameters of the cascaded services on the fly. It is also possible to transform some types of non-WMS map services to virtual WMS services with the help of a simple script.