[Talk-ca] Merkaartor and WMS layers

[James Ewen]

Is there anyone using Merkaartor and WMS layers within Canada?

I looked at Merkaartor many months ago, when it was very rudimentary.
It appears now to be much more capable, and I'd like to start playing
with it.

However, the documentation for the program is very much lacking. It's
currently at the stage where you really need to know what you are
doing, and know the details about what you want to do in order to get
things set up properly. That's a little difficult to do when you don't
have the knowledge.

Merkaartor appears to have the ability to add new WMS servers to its
abilities, but there is no documentation about how to set up a new WMS
server.

I grabbed a link from the Toporama website and pasted it into the
Server URL spot on the WMS servers setup page, and if you click on get
capabilities, you get a long list of all the available information
from Toporama. However, when I enable the layer, all I get is a little
grey box.

Anyone know what to do?

While we are at this, is there a list of available WMS servers that
contain Canadian data? This would be a great OSM Wiki page.

James
VE6SRV