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

Jonathan Greenberg jgrn at illinois.edu
Tue Apr 29 17:55:14 CEST 2014


I haven't tested this exact application yet, but perhaps try gdalUtils
(which are wrappers for the gdal utilities, and use an independent
GDAL install).  Let me know if it works!

--j

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:
> According to gdalDrivers(), I have
> 115             WCS                                       OGC Web
> Coverage Service  FALSE FALSE
> 116             WMS                                      OGC Web Map
> Service  FALSE  TRUE
>
>
> which I understand implies that I should be able to read wms.
>
> I'll see if I can find someone interested on building this type of utility in R.
>
> Agus
>
> Details on my system (linuxmint 15, based on ubuntu raring) (gdal from
> ubuntugis-unstable):
>> require(rgdal)
> Loading required package: rgdal
> Loading required package: sp
> rgdal: version: 0.8-16, (SVN revision 498)
> Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
> Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.10.0, released 2013/04/24
> Path to GDAL shared files: /usr/share/gdal/1.10
> Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.8.0, 6 March 2012, [PJ_VERSION: 480]
> Path to PROJ.4 shared files: (autodetected)
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=es_ES.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=es_ES.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_PAPER=es_ES.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> LC_MEASUREMENT=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
> methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
>  [1] rasterVis_0.27      hexbin_1.26.3       latticeExtra_0.6-26
> lattice_0.20-24     RColorBrewer_1.0-5
>  [6] ggmap_2.3           ggplot2_0.9.3.1     raster_2.2-31
> rgdal_0.8-16        sp_1.0-14
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] colorspace_1.2-4    dichromat_2.0-0     digest_0.6.4
> gtable_0.1.2        labeling_0.2
>  [6] mapproj_1.2-1       maps_2.3-6          MASS_7.3-29
> munsell_0.4.2       plyr_1.8
> [11] png_0.1-7           proto_0.3-10        reshape2_1.2.2
> RgoogleMaps_1.2.0.5 rjson_0.2.13
> [16] RJSONIO_1.0-3       scales_0.2.3        stringr_0.6.2
> tools_3.0.2         zoo_1.7-10
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux Delia 3.8.0-35-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 3 01:24:59 UTC
> 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>>
>>> Agus
>>>
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