Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Help/Menu/Imagery


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Timestamp:
2007-02-19T14:51:52+01:00 (19 years ago)
Author:
dmgroom
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update for current version of plugin

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  • Help/Menu/Imagery

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    11= Main menu > WMS =
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    3 This menu item is only available when the wmsplugin plugin has been installed. You can [http://chippy2005.googlepages.com/wmsplugin.jar download the plugin here]
     3This menu item is only available when the wmsplugin plugin has been installed.
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    55The wmsplugin allows you to use various sources as a background layer in the main window.  Clicking on a green WMS menu item will automatically download the image from the server. Servers can be added and edited using the WMSplugin Preference Tab  in the [wiki:Help/Action/Preferences preferences ]. Any new servers or changes would then displayed on the main WMS menu. By default, Landsat and NPE menu items are added.
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    7 At present, the Menu has three sections:
     7At present, the Menu has five sections:
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    9 == WMS Server items ==
    10 Server items - Clicking on these downloads from the relevant server. Items can be added via the WMSplugin preference tab.
     9== Landsat ==
     10
     11Downloaads Landsat image for the area.
     12
     13== NPE Maps ==
     14
     15Only applicable to England & Wales. Downloads a scanned and rectified image of the New Popular Edition Ordnance Survey map.
     16
     17== Metacarta ==
    1118
    1219== Rectified Image == 
    … …  
    1926Opens up a text helpfile.
    2027
    21 ---
     28{{{
     29You can add, edit and delete WMS entries in the WMSplugin Preference Tab - these will then show up in the WMS menu.
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    23 Default WMS Server Menu Items:
     31You can also do this manually in the Advanced Preferences, using the following schema:
     32wmsplugin.url.1.name=Landsat
     33wmsplugin.url.1.url=http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov....
     34wmsplugin.url.2.name=NPE Maps... etc
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    25 Landsat - Same behaviour as the landsat plugin, allows use of NASA Landsat images as a background.
     36Full WMS URL input format example (landsat)
     37http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi?request=GetMap&layers=global_mosaic&styles=&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/jpeg
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    27 NPE maps - Use out of copyright [http://www.npemap.org.uk/  New Popular Edition] Ordnance Survey maps as a background.
    28 
     39For Metacartas Map Rectifier http://labs.metacarta.com/rectifier/ , you only need to input the relevant 'id'.
     40To add a Metacarta Map Rectifer menu item, manually create the url like in this example,replacing 73 with your image id:
     41http://labs.metacarta.com/rectifier/wms.cgi?id=73&srs=EPSG:4326&Service=WMS&Version=1.1.0&Request=GetMap&format=image/png
     42 
     43Note: Make sure the image is suitable, copyright-wise, if in doubt, don't use.
     44WMS Plugin version: 2.4
     45}}}
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