-
WMS and WMTS Integration
Nearmap Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) integrations allow you to load high-resolution imagery to your off-the-shelf GIS and CAD applications. While WMS allows you to load imagery for your area of interest, WMTS loads tiles for an AOI. Depending upon your use case, you may use one or the other.
-
WMS 2.0 Integration
Overview Nearmap WMS 2.0 (referred to as WMS) integration allows you to load high-resolution imagery into your off-the-shelf GIS and CAD applications on demand. Nearmap WMS 2.0 is based on OGC protocol WMS 1.1.1. To consume the latest Nearmap imagery via WMS, you must use a Nearmap Simple or Custom API service. Both…
-
WMS vs WMTS
The following table offers a comparison of WMS and WMTS. WMS vs WMTSWMS WMTS More supported Lower degree of support Loads imagery as a single, large file Loads tiles Slower to load Quicker to load More supported projections Less flexibility in terms of supported projections More compatible with on-prem apps More compatible…
-
Create a WMS 2.0 Area
Creating an area with a custom URL To create a WMS 2.0 area: Obtain a custom WMS URL . Load the URL into your GIS application to view your area of interest. All you need is a rough outline of the area of interest to be able to filter imagery based on survey dates. A precise outline is not required in your WMS 2.0 client…
-
Image Format Recommendation
Nearmap supports PNG and JPEG through the WMS service. Each GIS application will have a means of specifying the image format or image encoding. Most GIS applications have PNG as the default image format for WMS requests. We recommend that you instead set the image format to JPEG when you set up a WMS connection to Nearmap.…
-
WMTS Integration
WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) integration allows users of some GIS software packages to download pre-rendered map tiles from Nearmap servers. WMTS has the advantage of providing low-latency map rendering. Nearmap's WMTS integration exposes our tile API, which is actually Google-style TMS. More information about our Tile API…
-
Supported Coordinate Systems
We support the most popular local coordinate systems for all of our imagery. Depending on which coordinate system your GIS application is configured with, you can request imagery in the following coordinate systems: Australia - GDA94 and GDA2020 USA - NAD83 Canada - NAD83CSRS New Zealand - NZGD2000 When requesting imagery…
-
WMS and Satellite Imagery
Nearmap provides spectacular high-resolution aerial photography of selected residential, commercial and industrial areas. When you view our imagery through WMS, you'll see a dramatic difference between our areas of coverage, and areas in which only lower-resolution satellite imagery is available. Here's an example. In the…