[Freegis-list] OGC Web Map Server support in TerraVision

[Martin Reddy]

At the Digital Earth 2001 conference earlier this week, SRI demonstrated its
new Web Map Server (WMS) interface along with the latest version of
TerraVision which is augmented to browse terrain datasets from a WMS. The WMS
specification is developed by the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC: www.opengis.org),
a not-for-profit organization that develops de facto standards for processing
and sharing georeferenced data. The specification allows map products to be
shared and integrated over the Web.

The SRI WMS supports the serving of data in the GeoVRML file format, allowing
users to interact with elevation models or satellite imagery in 3D. (Other
traditional image formats such as GIF and JPEG are also supported.) The SRI
WMS can be used to browse most of our TerraVision terrain models. We have put
together a web site at the following address to document and demonstrate this
server:

  http://www.tvgeo.com/wmt.shtml

The next release of the Open Source tsmApi library (www.tsmapi.com) will
contain the full source code for this server implementation, and the next
release of the freely-available TerraVision system (www.tvgeo.com) will
include the capability to browse data from Web Map Servers.

Cheers,

Martin.


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Martin Reddy                                   SRI International, AI Center
                                               Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493
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