User guide

© GeoWise Ltd. 2011
Page 126
visualise | communicate | ENGAGE The InstantAtlas Batch Publisher
g the InstantAtlas Area Profile Template User Guide
© GeoWise Ltd. 2013
Figure 150
ArcGIS/WMS Url: Optionally you can include a Web Map Service as a
background mapping. Therefore type the URL for the WMS into this field.
In the example a connection to the free global WMS from Demis in the
Netherlands is used.
ArcGIS/WMS Name: The name of the WMS layer as it will appear in the
legend of your report. To see this name you will need to disable the ‘Single
Background Mapping Button?’ option in the map properties of the config
file. In the example this is ‘www2.demis.nl’.
If you don’t know the values for the following settings you might want to
request the properties of the WMS with the GetCapabilities request.
Therefore type into the URL field of your internet browser the url of the
WMS you want to use followed by ‘&REQUEST=GetCapabilities’. This will
offer you a file in xml format with the properties of the WMS including
coordinate system, version number, available image formats and available
layers.
ArcGIS/WMS Layers: A comma delimited list of WMS layers you want to
include.
ArcGIS Coordsys/WMS ScsCode: This is the coordinate system of the
WMS. For the WMS from Demis this is ‘EPSG:4326’
WMS OGC Version: The version number of the WMS. For the Demis
WMS this is ‘1.1.1’. This field is mandatory if you want to have the Batch
Publisher re-project your map layers into the WMS projection.
ArcGIS/WMS Parameters: Parameters for image format, background
colour and transparency. The parameter names are ‘format’, ‘bgcolor’ and
‘transparent’ and they must have an ampersand (‘&’) as a prefix.
In the example workbook we have chosen:
‘&format=image/png&bgcolor=0xffffff&transparent=FALSE’
Reproject: For a WMS background to work, all map layers need to be in
the same projection as WMS. Set this property to ‘True’ if you wish the
Batch Publisher to re-project your map layers. If your map layers are
already in the correct projection you should set this property to ‘False’.
Please refer to ‘B.3.5.2 Adding Images from a WMS Connection’ for
important information on the re-projection functionality and its limitations.
In reports published with an HTML template there is no property
‘Single Background Mapping Button?’ in the config.xml file. All
background layers will show with their specific name in the legend.