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Munich,11thNovember2016Author:DiarmuidKelly,DirectorSalesInternational©byANDSolutionGmbH
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Optionalclientplug-infortheANDSystemSolutionprovidingtheuseraccesstoexternalmapsources
Openingthedoortoliterallyanymapsource–OpenStreetMap™,GoogleMaps™,Esri™,etc.
ANDWMSclientenablestheusertoquerymapsviaWMS,tofetchthemfromanymapserverwithWMSinterface,andtodisplaythemasabackgroundlayerinANDGISareaprojects.
WMS–WebMapServiceInterfaceStandard(OpenGeospatialConsortium)–providesasimpleHTTPinterfaceforrequestinggeo-registeredmapimagesfromoneormoredistributedgeospatialdatabases.
AWMSrequestdefinesthegeographiclayer(s)andareaofinteresttobeprocessed.Theresponsetotherequestisageo-referencedmapimage(returnedasJPEG,PNG,etc.)thatcanbedisplayedinanapplication.
Theinterfacealsosupportstheabilitytospecifywhetherthereturnedimagesshouldbetransparentsothatlayersfrommultipleserverscanbecombinedifrequired.Theleveloftransparencycanalsobeadjusted.
ANDWMSclientadministersinformationusingaWMSDocument(storedontheserver).ThiscontainsalistofWMSdatasources,eachdescribingtheWMSserverandalistoftheWMSlayerstobeusedinqueries.Asaresult,thequeryingsoftwarefunctionreceivesamapforeachdatasourcelisted.Thesemapsarejoinedtoformanoverallmap.Separatedisplayoptionsareavailableforeachdatasource.
WMSDocumentscanbeembeddedinANDprojectsallowingthepreviouslyusedconfigurationtoberestoredwhentheANDprojectisloadednexttime.ThisisthecaseeveniftheWMSDocumentsusedatthetimeofsavingarenolongerseparatelyavailable.
UsersquicklybecomeusedtofastresponsetimeswhenworkingwithmapswithinAND.Theabilitytomanagemapsanddatastorageefficientlyandfastisespeciallyimportantduringthedesignofaccessnetworksindenselypopulatedareas.ToensureadequateperformancewhensourcingmapsexternallywerecommendtheusageofanOpenSourcecachingmanager,e.g.MapProxy™,whichcanalsore-projectmapfiles.
Note:Whenusingacachingmanageritisimportanttocheckthelicensingstipulationsofthemapsprovider;thiscanvaryfromcountrytocountry.ANDprovidesanembeddedAPIforGoogleMaps™.