[R-sig-Geo] Access WMS (and alike) services from R?

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Agustin Lobo wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is there any project attempting to access remote geoservices such as
> WMS in a similar way
> as it is done with google maps (i.e. through ggmap:get_map()) ?

I've no idea how ggmap does this, or whether it uses WMS. Your GDAL may 
have been built with a WMS driver - see gdalDrivers() to check. The CRAN 
Windows rgdal binary does not have this driver. For driver details see:

http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms.html

which has examples of the short xml files needed to configure access to 
such services.

Roger

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> Agus
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