Bulk WMS tile downloader and georeferencer
With wms-thief you can download WMS images from a server to your local machine. You can define multiple scales for a single run. The tile geometry and metadata can optionally be saved in a PostGIS database in case you wish to visualize the tile vectors. Furthermore, you can use a mask layer as well.
After downloading, the images are georeferenced and converted into GeoTiff format, so you can easily add them to e.g. GeoServer as an image mosaic layer.
- To run
wms-thiefthe usage of the OSGeo4W shell is recommended. You may have to install the requests package locally with pip:pip install requests(this is how you install pip) - Modify the run.py file to match your needs (see the code at the "user defined parameters" section)
- set the WMS parameters such as url, image format, layer, crs, starting-ending coordinates etc.
- optionally set the database connection
- optionally add the WKT (well-known-text) file location containing a (multi)polygon for using as a mask layer
- Run the program from the command line:
python run.py - Please do not download private or sensitive data
wms-thief was created by Gergely Padányi-Gulyás