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Web Map Service (WMS) (item)

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A ImageryLayerCatalogItem representing a layer from a Web Map Service (WMS) server.

Initialization File properties:

"type": "wms"

availableDimensions

The list of additional dimensions (e.g. elevation) and their possible values available from the WMS server. If undefined, this property is automatically populated from the WMS GetCapabilities on load. This property is an object that has a property named for each layer. The value of the property is an array of dimensions available for this layer. A dimension has the fields shown in the example below. See the WMS 1.3.0 specification, section C.2, for a description of the fields. All fields are optional except name and options.

availableStyles

The available styles for each selected layer in WebMapServiceCatalogItem's layers. If undefined, this property is automatically populated from the WMS GetCapabilities on load. This property is an object that has a property named for each layer. The value of the property is an array where each element in the array is a style supported by the layer. The style has name, title, abstract, and legendUrl properties.

cacheDuration

The cache duration to use for proxied URLs for this catalog member. If undefined, proxied URLs are effectively cachable forever. The duration is expressed as a Varnish-like duration string, such as '1d' (one day) or '10000s' (ten thousand seconds).

chartColor

The color of how the dataset will displayed on the chart

chartDisclaimer

A HTML string to show above the chart as a disclaimer

chartType

The name style of how the item will be rendered on the chart

clipToRectangle

A value indicating whether this dataset should be clipped to the CatalogItem's rectangle. If true, no part of the dataset will be displayed outside the rectangle. This property is true by default, leading to better performance and avoiding tile request errors that might occur when requesting tiles outside the server-specified rectangle. However, it may also cause features to be cut off in some cases, such as if a server reports an extent that does not take into account that the representation of features sometimes require a larger spatial extent than the features themselves. For example, if a point feature on the edge of the extent is drawn as a circle with a radius of 5 pixels, half of that circle will be cut off.

colorScaleMaximum

The maximum of the color scale range. Because COLORSCALERANGE is a non-standard property supported by ncWMS servers, this property is ignored unless WebMapServiceCatalogItem's supportsColorScaleRange is true. WebMapServiceCatalogItem's colorScaleMinimum must be set as well.

colorScaleMinimum

The minumum of the color scale range. Because COLORSCALERANGE is a non-standard property supported by ncWMS servers, this property is ignored unless WebMapServiceCatalogItem's supportsColorScaleRange is true. WebMapServiceCatalogItem's colorScaleMaximum must be set as well.

customProperties

The dictionary of custom item properties.

dataCustodian

A description of the custodian of this data item. This property is an HTML string that must be sanitized before display to the user.

dataUrl

The URL from which this data item's raw data can be retrieved, or undefined if raw data for this data item is not available.

dataUrlType

The type of the CatalogItem's dataUrl, or undefined if raw data for this data source is not available. Valid values are: * direct - A direct link to the data. * wfs - A Web Feature Service (WFS) base URL. If CatalogItem's dataUrl is not specified, the base URL will be this data item's URL. * wfs-complete - A complete, ready-to-use link to download features from a WFS server. * none - There is no data link.

dateFormat

Options for formatting current time and timeline tic labels. Options are: currentTime // Current time in time slider will be shown in this format. For example "mmmm yyyy" for Jan 2016. timelineTic // Timeline tics will have this label. For example "yyyy" will cause each tic to be labelled with the year.

description

The description of the item.

dimensions

The selected values for dimensions available for this WMS layer. The value of this property is an object where each key is the name of a dimension and each value is the value to use for that dimension. Note that WMS does not allow dimensions to be explicitly specified per layer. So the selected dimension values are applied to all layers with a corresponding dimension.

disableUserChanges

A value indicating whether the user's ability to change the display properties of this catalog item is disabled. For example, if true, WebMapServiceCatalogItem's styles should not be changeable through the user interface.

displayChoicesBeforeLegend

A flag which determines whether the legend comes before (false) or after (true) the display variable choice. Default false.

displayDuration

Gets or sets how many seconds time-series data with a start date but no end date should last, in seconds.

dontChartAlone

Whether this layer is sufficient to warrant a chart.

featureInfoTemplate

A template to display message in a info box. May be a string or an object with template, name and/or partials properties.

featureTimesProperty

The name of a property in a feature returned from this layer's feature query service that indicates the times at which this layer covers this position. For example, historical and near-real-time satellite imagery often comes as daily swaths, with a given area on the globe potentially only covered every number of days.

forceProxy

Gets or sets whether or not this member should be forced to use a proxy. This property is not observable.

hideLayerAfterMinScaleDenominator

A value indicating whether to continue showing tiles or hide tiles when the WebMapServiceCatalogItem's minScaleDenominator is exceeded.

hideSource

Indicates that the source of this data should be hidden from the UI (obviously this isn't super-secure as you can just look at the network requests).

id

An optional unique id for this member, that is stable across renames and moves. Use uniqueId to get the canonical unique id for this CatalogMember, which is present even if there is no id.

ignoreUnknownTileErrors

A value indicating whether non-specific (no HTTP status code) tile errors should be ignored. This is a last resort, for dealing with odd cases such as data sources that return non-images (eg XML) with a 200 status code. No error messages will be shown to the user.

initialMessage

A message object that is presented to the user when an item or group is initially clicked The object is of the form {title:string, content:string, key: string, confirmation: boolean, confirmText: string, width: number, height: number}.

initialTimeSource

Options for the value of the animation timeline at start. Valid options in config file are: initialTimeSource: "present" // closest to today's date initialTimeSource: "start" // start of time range of animation initialTimeSource: "end" // end of time range of animation initialTimeSource: An ISO8601 date e.g. "2015-08-08" // specified date or nearest if date is outside range

isEnabled

A value indicating whether this data item is enabled. An enabled data item appears in the "Now Viewing" pane, but is not necessarily shown on the map.

isEsri

Gets or sets whether this WMS has been identified as being provided by an Esri ArcGIS MapServer. No assumption is made about where an ArcGIS MapServer endpoint also exists.

isGeoServer

Gets or sets whether this WMS has been identified as being provided by a GeoServer.

isHidden

A value indicating whether this item is hidden from the catalog. This property is observable.

isLegendVisible

A value indicating whether the legend for this data item is currently visible.

isLoading

A value indicating whether this data source is currently loading.

isMappable

A value indicating whether this data source can be shown on the map (as opposed to a time-series dataset, for instance, which can only be shown in a chart).

isNcWMS

Gets or sets whether this WMS has been identified as being provided by ncWMS.

isPromoted

A value indicating whether this item is kept above other non-promoted items.

isRequiredForRendering

A value indicating whether tiles of this catalog item are required to be loaded before terrain tiles to which they're attached can be rendered. This should usually be set to true for base layers and false for all others.

isShown

A value indicating whether this data item is currently shown on the map. In order to be shown, the item must also be enabled.

isUserSupplied

A value indicating whether this member was supplied by the user rather than loaded from one of the Terria's initSources. User-supplied members must be serialized completely when, for example, serializing enabled members for sharing.

isWaitingForDisclaimer

Whether this catalog member is waiting for a disclaimer to be accepted before showing itself.

keepOnTop

Keeps the layer on top of all other imagery layers.

layers

The WMS layers to include. To specify multiple layers, separate them with a commas.

legendUrl

The URL of the legend to show when this catalog item is enabled. If there is more than one legend URL, this property returns the first one.

legendUrls

The URLs of the legends to show when this catalog item is enabled.

linkedWcsCoverage

The coverage name for linked WCS for clip-and-ship. This proerty is part of an experimental feature and may be subject to change.

linkedWcsUrl

The URL of a WCS that enables clip-and-ship for this WMS item. This proerty is part of an experimental feature and may be subject to change.

maxRefreshIntervals

The maximum number of intervals that can be created by a single date range, when specified in the form time/time/periodicity. eg. 2015-04-27T16:15:00/2015-04-27T18:45:00/PT15M has 11 intervals

maximumShownFeatureInfos

The maximum number of features whose information can be shown at one time in the Feature Info Panel, from this item. Defaults to terria.configParameters.defaultMaximumShownFeatureInfos

metadataUrl

The URL from which this data item's metadata description can be retrieved, or undefined if metadata is not available for this data item. The format of the metadata depends on the type of data item. For example, Web Map Service (WMS) data items provide their metadata via their GetCapabilities document.

minScaleDenominator

The denominator of the largest scale (smallest denominator) for which tiles should be requested. For example, if this value is 1000, then tiles representing a scale larger than 1:1000 (i.e. numerically smaller denominator, when zooming in closer) will not be requested. Instead, tiles of the largest-available scale, as specified by this property, will be used and will simply get blurier as the user zooms in closer.

name

The name of the item.

nameInCatalog

The name of this catalog member in the catalog. By default this is just name, but can be overridden.

nowViewingIndex

The index of the item in the Now Viewing list. Setting this property does not automatically change the order. This property is used intenally to save/restore the Now Viewing order and is not intended for general use.

nowViewingMessage

A message to show when this item is enabled for the first time in order to call attention to the Now Viewing panel.

opacity

The opacity (alpha) of the data item, where 0.0 is fully transparent and 1.0 is fully opaque.

parameters

The additional parameters to pass to the WMS server when requesting images. All parameter names must be entered in lowercase in order to be consistent with references in TerrisJS code. If this property is undefined, WebMapServiceCatalogItem.defaultParameters is used.

populateIntervalsFromTimeDimension

A value indicating whether a time dimension, if it exists in GetCapabilities, should be used to populate the ImageryLayerCatalogItem's intervals. If the ImageryLayerCatalogItem's intervals property is set explicitly on this catalog item, the value of this property is ignored.

rectangle

The geographic rectangle (extent or bounding box) containing this data item.

shortReport

A short report to show on the now viewing tab.

showOnChart

Whether to show imagery availability on charts.

showsInfo

A value indicating whether this data source should show an info icon.

styles

The comma-separated list of styles to request, one per layer list in WebMapServiceCatalogItem's layers.

supportsColorScaleRange

Gets or sets whether this WMS server has been identified as supporting the COLORSCALERANGE parameter.

tileErrorThresholdBeforeDisabling

Allow a threshold to be configured for the number of tile fails before disabling the layer.

tilingScheme

The tiling scheme to pass to the WMS server when requesting images. If this property is undefiend, the default tiling scheme of the provider is used.

tokenParameterName

The name of the URL query parameter used to provide the token to the server. This property is ignored if WebMapServiceCatalogItem's tokenUrl is undefined.

tokenUrl

The URL to use for requesting tokens. Typically, this is set to /esri-token-auth to use the ArcGIS token mechanism built into terriajs-server.

treat403AsError

A value indicating whether a 403 response code when requesting a tile should be treated as an error. If false, 403s are assumed to just be missing tiles and need not be reported to the user.

treat404AsError

A value indicating whether a 404 response code when requesting a tile should be treated as an error. If false, 404s are assumed to just be missing tiles and need not be reported to the user.

url

The URL of this data.

useOwnClock

A flag indicating whether imagery should be displayed using this item's own clock (currentTime, multiplier), or, if false, the terria clock (whose current time is shown in the timeline UI). Default false.

zoomOnEnable

A value indicating whether the map will automatically zoom to this catalog item when it is enabled.

Note that within a single init source:

  • Catalog items with both isEnabled and zoomOnEnable set to true will override the top-level initialCamera property.
  • If multiple catalog items have both isEnabled and zoomOnEnable set to true, it is undefined which one will affect the camera.

In the case of multiple init sources, however, the camera will reflect whatever happens in the last init source, whether it is a result of a zoomOnEnable or an initialCamera,