wms-tile-get 0.3
Fetch map from WMS server and store them as tiled web map with Slippy Map or or Google Map convention
License: MIT

# wms-tile-get

Fetch map from WMS server and store them as tiled web map with
[Slippy Map](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_map_tilenames) or Google Map convention.
Typically the resulting tiles should be with EPSG:3857 projection.

The output structure:

~~~
.
|- 10/
|  |- 544/
|  |  |- 354.png
|  |  |- 355.png
|  |- 545
|     |- 354.png
|     |- 355.png
|- 11/
|  |- ...
|
|- 12/
|  |- ...
|
~~~

The tool is similar to many others like [wms-tiles-downloader](https://github.com/Luqqk/wms-tiles-downloader)
but it can also accept geojson polygon as area of interest.

## Install

On Unix-like platforms just use `pip install`

~~~
$ pip install wms-tile-get
~~~

The script `wms-tile-get` will be installed, otherwise `scripts/wms-tile-get` from a cloned code repository can also be run directly.

On Windows please see the [instruction](Windows.md)

## Usage

### Fetch tiles for an area (e.g. a city)

~~~
$ cd example/

$ wms-tile-get -s by_wms.json \
               -g munich.boundary.geojson \
               -z 10 \
               -o by_dop80c
~~~

  * `-s` defines WMS server parameters.
  * `-g` defines the area(s) of interest (polygon area in geojson).
  * `-z` defines the zoom level(s) of interest.
  * `-o` defines output folder.

An area or boundary shapes (e.g. `munich.boundary.geojson`) of named areas can be downloaded from
[boundary.now](https://haoliangyu.github.io/boundary.now/).

### Fetch tiles for a bbox area

~~~
$ wms-tile-get -s by_wms.json \
               -b 11.43,48.11,11.63,48.26 \
               -z 10 \
               -o by_dop80c
~~~

  * `-b` defines bounding box with longitudes and latitudes coordinates (i.e. EPSG:4326)

### More example

fetch tiles for zoom level 1 to 5, and 10 and 13.
All tiles will be fetched again when the tiles already exist in the output folder.

~~~
$ wms-tile-get -s by_wms.json \
               -g munich.boundary.geojson \
               -z 1-5 10 13  \
               -o by_dop80c  \
               --force
~~~


## Requirement:

 - Python3
   - requests
   - [supermercado](https://github.com/mapbox/supermercado)
   - [mercantile](https://github.com/mapbox/mercantile)


## Extra example

We can also only generate tile information with [x, y, z, minx, miny, maxx, maxy] tuples representing WMTS tile id and bbox.

~~~
$ cat munich.boundary.geojson       \
     | supermercado burn 18         \
     | mercantile shapes --mercator \
     | jq -c -r '[ [.id[1:-1]|split(",")|.[]|tonumber], .bbox ] | flatten | join(" ")' \
     > munich.tiles.bbox.z18.txt
~~~

The result `munich.tiles.bbox.z18.txt` looks like:

~~~
139445,90854,18,1280014.4756635614,6148135.933089867,1280167.3497201318,6148288.807146437
139446,90854,18,1280167.3497201318,6148135.933089867,1280320.223776702,6148288.807146437
139447,90854,18,1280320.223776702,6148135.933089867,1280473.0978332725,6148288.807146437
139448,90854,18,1280473.0978332725,6148135.933089867,1280625.971889843,6148288.807146437
139449,90854,18,1280625.971889843,6148135.933089867,1280778.8459464132,6148288.807146437
...
~~~

and then we can fetch tiles with such tile information.

~~~
$ wms-tile-get -s by_wms.json \
               -t munich.tiles.bbox.z10.txt \
               -o by_dop80c
~~~

  * `-t` defines tile information input file.

## WMS server definition

A WMS server definition consists mainly `url` and `parameter` which is appended to url as HTTP GET method parameters.

Example: `example/by_wms.json`

~~~
{
  "url": "https://geoservices.bayern.de/wms/v2/ogc_dop80_oa.cgi",
  "parameter": {
    "service": "WMS",
    "request": "GetMap",
    "layers": "by_dop80c",
    "styles": "",
    "format": "image/png",
    "transparent": true,
    "version": "1.1.1",
    "width": 256,
    "height": 256,
    "srs": "EPSG:3857",
    "bbox": "1330615.7883883484,6124746.202434601,1340399.728008851,6134530.142055106"
  },
  "concurrency": 8
}
~~~

Additional options:

  * `concurrency`: the maximal number of parallel requests to the WMS server