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dataLayerWMSTime

Technical Details

This class displays Web Map Service (WMS) format data layers. WMS is a standard protocol developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium in 1999 for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet. These images are typically produced by a map server from data provided by a GIS database. This class works with an extension of WMS that adds time as queryable dimension.

Configuration

The following parameters may be specified in the configuration file when defining a dataLayerWMSTime layer alongside all the parameters for a dataLayerWMS.

Parameter Example Value Default Description
align false false Whether to align times for requested data to 5 minute intervals. Required for some layers (e.g. Nexrad)
interval 5 10 How long between instances of requested data, in minutes (e.g. if it is 10, the data requested will be now, 10 minutes ago, etc.)
maxTime 60 90 The longest ago data to request, in minutes
opacity 0.8 0.4 How opaque the layers should be
waitTime 1 3 How long to wait between loops of the animation, in seconds