wms-downloader

Install

pip install wms-downloader

Usage

Create a config.yml specifying your setup like this:

service:
  version: 1.1.1
  url: http://fbinter.stadt-berlin.de/fb/wms/senstadt/k_luftbild1953?
  srs: EPSG:25833
  format: jpeg
  transparent: false
  layer: 0
bbox:
  west:   370000.0
  south: 5800000.0
  east:   415000.0
  north: 5837000.0

size: 10000
resolution: 600
timeout: 300
projection: EPSG:25833
bandscount: 3
directory: images
vrtfile: tiles.vrt
tmpfile: /tmp/wms.xml

where:

• service describes the used WMS service,
• bbox is the bounding box for the map you want to retrieve,
• size is the size of an individual tile in projection units,
• resolution is the pixel dimension of an individual tile,
• directory is the directory where the downloaded images are stored,
• vrtfile is the path to the created vrt file, and
• tmpfile is the path to the (temporary) xml file used for the WMS requests.

Then run the script with the config.yml as argument:

wms-downloader config.yml

Help

$ wms-downloader --help
usage: Downloads large geo TIFF files from a WMS service.

positional arguments:
  config      config file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit