Using WMS servers on TangoGPS

Joseph Reeves iknowjoseph at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 12:52:19 CEST 2009


Great stuff! :)

What map projections are supported? I guess just spherical mercator?

Cheers, Joseph



2009/7/3 David Reyes Samblas Martinez <david at tuxbrain.com>:
> Dear all,
> I have published a piece of PHP in the tuxbrain blog[1] that allows to
> "translate" the OSM tile sistem used by TangoGPS(and omgps) to a
> standard OGC WMS 1.1.1 web services,
> In the code[2] is an example implemented the Institut Catala de
> Cartografia (http://www.icc.cat) but I think the hard stuff (changing
> coordinates), change datum, etc can be reused to other wms server out
> there, the maps usually are free aviable for non comercial use, so I
> think it can be interesting to use other maps source than OSM (low
> detail in some zones) or google maps (not able to mass download).
> The article is in spanish but the source code comments are on english.
> As always comments are welcome.
>
> [1]http://www.tuxbrain.com/usando-mapas-wms-en-tangogps
> [2]http://www.tuxbrain.com/sites/default/files/tiletoUTM-0_1_tar.bz2
>
> Regards
> --
> David Reyes Samblas Martinez
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