Web Map Service (WMS) Support

The Web Map Service protocol has been around a while.  A long while.  I just got around to implementing it in WhirlyGlobe-Maply.

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Of course the toolkit has been able to do this sort of thing since 1.0, but with a variant of TMS.  I think.  You know, what OpenStreetMap and Google publish.  Bing does something weirder.

Anyway, you can do WMS now in your WhirlyGlobe or Maply app.

The Code

All this is in WhirlyGlobe-Maply 2.2, a rather massive update to the toolkit I'll be publishing shortly.  It's in the develop branch if you're feeling frisky.

Here's how you'd add the NAIP ortho quads to your globe (or map).

Pretty simple, actually.  Here's all we're doing.

• Create a coordinate system that describes good old WGS84 lat/lon.
• Setting up a tile source to point to the WMS end point.
• Starting a new layer which uses that tile source.

Incidentally, you can write your own tile sources now.  The code for MaplyWMSTileSource is pretty simple and it lives at the Component level.  That means it's entirely Objective-C.

Oh, and I don't think you should do this for WMS sources you don't own.  WMS is much more general and I'm using it for tiles, which is... yeah.  Anyway, be sure you know what services you're hitting and how they feel about it.