MapFish Printing – MapFish Printing Capabilities for WMS and WFS

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we are evaluating whether MapFish Printing module fit our needs or not.. From a 2010 presentation http://2010.foss4g.org/presentations/3234.pdf, it says MapFish printing has following readers:

Web Map Server (WMS)
Google Maps
Tile Map Server (TMS)
Image
KaMap
KaMapCache
Open Street Map (OSM)
Tile Cache
GeoJSON

I am wondering does it support

ArcGIS Server WMS?
OpenLayers.Layer.ArcGISCache layer?

besides, what about WFS?
It lists GeoJSON, does this mean it supports GeoJSON-Based WFS?
again, ArcGIS Server WFS?

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Yes, ArcGIS Server WMS works with MapFish Print
No, you cannot use ArcGISCache
No, I grep'ed the mapfish readers and found no WFS references
Specifically, there is no WFS in VectorMapReader.java

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Yes, it should be possible to do this using the GDAL_WMS driver from GDAL. There is even an example at that page that points to another ArcGIS REST instance. However, I have not been able to make the concept work against this particular VBMP server. Against a slew of other ArcGIS servers with global-mercator output, no problem.

I believe I do not have the layer extents properly defined, or the tile levels, because I keep generating TMS requests that the server cannot respond to. Since I'm used to working with Spherical Mercator TMS requests, ones like this for TMS addresses in a local projection don't make much sense to me- http://gismaps.virginia.gov/arcgis2/rest/services/VBMP2006_2007/MapServer/tile/0/83/68.jpg.

Below is the XML file I put together from the Service metadata page - http://gismaps.virginia.gov/arcgis2/rest/services/VBMP2006_2007/MapServer. You may be able to get some assistance in making this work from the GDAL developer forum. Once GDAL can properly access the service, you can point MapServer (the original one) at the XML file and run a WMS service that can reproject the data from EPSG:3698 to EPSG:900913 (or whatever code is now used).

<GDAL_WMS>
  <Service name="TMS">        
  <ServerUrl>http://gismaps.virginia.gov/arcgis2/rest/services/VBMP2006_2007/MapServer/tile/${z}/${y}/${x}.jpg</ServerUrl>
    <Layer>VBMP</Layer>
    <Format>jpg</Format>
    <Version>1.1.1</Version>
  </Service>
  <DataWindow>
    <UpperLeftX>-384269.977874641</UpperLeftX>
    <UpperLeftY>476583.633639972</UpperLeftY>
    <LowerRightX>404548.778455541</LowerRightX>
    <LowerRightY>-48883.4062351487</LowerRightY>
    <TileLevel>13</TileLevel>
    <TileCountX>1</TileCountX>
    <TileCountY>1</TileCountY>
    <YOrigin>top</YOrigin>
  </DataWindow>
  <Projection>EPSG:3968</Projection>
  <BlockSizeX>512</BlockSizeX>
  <BlockSizeY>512</BlockSizeY>
  <BandsCount>3</BandsCount>
  <Cache />
</GDAL_WMS>

Good luck.

[GIS] Free map service for private web applications

I'm not sure why you are excluding services like Google Maps, especially since your expected traffic not that high (Google starts charging after 25,000 map views (your map views will be much lower than 10,000): https://developers.google.com/maps/faq#usage_pricing). What you basically need is two things:

Someone to provide you with the Web slippy map. This can be Google Maps, Bing, MapQuest, Cloudmade etc. Or you could run your own tile server and use OpenStreetMap data.
Rendering your own vector data on the client side (using javascript) on top of the Web map. There are several open source libraries that can do that (OpenLayers, Leaflet, Polymaps...).

Some pointers to investigate further:

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