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WhooMS – a tiny public geotiff WMS server

WhooMS is a tiny public WMS server for those people who have a GeoTIFF and need someplace to serve it as WMS. I wrote it a while ago, but now its running for all to use.

It’s written in Ruby, using the Sinatra Web Framework, which basically means it can all fit neatly on one file.  It uses Ruby Mapscript to read the uploaded GeoTiff and serve it out to the world.

Nice and simple and basic. Got a GeoTiff handy? (EPSG:4326) give it a go. whooms.mapwarper.net

The code for it can be found on github: http://github.com/timwaters/whooms

Main caveat: when the disc space gets full, the older files will be deleted to fill up space.

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2 thoughts on “WhooMS – a tiny public geotiff WMS server”

  1. Pingback: GIS-Lab Blog» Архив блога » Новости вокруг

  2. Nice soft. I’m trying to set this server on my local computer. Never used ruby before.

    I there any hints how to set it up on ubuntu?

    Thanks.

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