Tiled Map Service WMTS

[pbcGIS]

It would be great if Neatline could incorporate maps served via the OGC Web Map Tile Service standard. These maps can be served up from the Rumsey Collection georeferencer and also (as I understand) can be served as simple files using a php script free from Klokan tech.

Alleviating the need to have access to a WMS would make Neatline much more accessible.

Thanks -- great tool! --pbc

[erochest]

That's a really interesting idea. We'll look into it.

[waynegraham]

@pbcote Neatline "supports" WMTS (at least as far as OpenLayers 2 does), but there's not a web interface for enabling layers. If you're brave enough, take a look at the json files in https://github.com/waynegraham/neatline_basemaps. You should get something like this:

{

  "Map Tiler Example": [

    {
      "title": "Cassini Terrestrial Globe",
      "id": "maptiler.CassiniTerrestrialGlobe",
      "type": "XYZ",
      "properties": {
        "urls": [
          "http://tileserver.maptiler.com/cassini-terrestrial/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg"
        ]
      }
    }
}

[pbcGIS]

Thanks Guys,

I'll see if I can make this work!

[btinker]

As a work around for this (for local tiles) I used the "neatline_basemaps" method listed above and used gdal (gdal2tiles) to create a tile set for my georeferenced map. A bash script converted the WMTS tiles that gdal produces to XYZ format so that Neatline will display properly. What I am hoping for now is a way to make that layer a standard layer and not have it be forced as a "baselayer" so that I can still have a baselayer and my map displayed together.

[librarygnome]

Hi, did anyone follow up on this? It's 2021 and it looks like a lot of open source maps only provide tile servers, not WMS.