Using WMS servers on TangoGPS

[kimaidou]

Hi !
+ the the "great stuff" !
For those who cannot speak spanish, here is the direct google translation of
the blog page:
http://translate.google.fr/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tuxbrain.com%2Fen%2Fusando-mapas-wms-en-tangogps&sl=es&tl=en&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8

2009/7/3 David Reyes Samblas Martinez <david at tuxbrain.com>

> the ICC example uses ED50 / UTM zone 30 North, that was one of my
> first headaches, (OSM , google ... use spherical mercator) and even
> appling the tranformation there still was some offset that finally I
> have to hard code,
>  I have not tested but surely using the class included to lat-lon-> to
> UTM will give you correct spherical mercator UTM cordinates. cause is
> spherical mercator uses WGS84 datum
>
> 2009/7/3 Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com>:
> > 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
> >> http://www.tuxbrain.com
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