Coverages

With coverages you can define areas where data is available or where data you are interested in is. MapProxy supports coverages for sources and in the mapproxy-seed tool. Refer to the corresponding section in the documentation.

There are three different ways to describe a coverage.

• a simple rectangular bounding box,
• a text file with one or more polygons in WKT format,
• polygons from any data source readable with OGR (e.g. Shapefile, PostGIS)

Requirements

If you want to use polygons to define a coverage, instead of simple bounding boxes, you will also need Shapely and GEOS. For loading polygons from shapefiles you’ll also need GDAL/OGR.

MapProxy requires Shapely 1.2.0 or later and GEOS 3.1.0 or later.

On Debian:

sudo aptitude install libgeos-dev libgdal-dev
pip install Shapely

Coverage Types

Bounding box

bbox:

A simple BBOX as a list, e.g: [4, -30, 10, -28].

bbox_srs:

The SRS of the BBOX.

Polygon file

polygons:

Path to a text file with one WKT polygon per line. The path should be relative to the proxy configuration or absolute. You can create your own files or use one of the files we provide for every country. Read the index to find your country.

polygons_srs:

The SRS of the polygons.

OGR datasource

ogr_datasource:

The name of the datasource. Refer to the OGR format page for a list of all supported datasources. File paths should be relative to the proxy configuration or absolute.

ogr_where:

Restrict which polygons should be loaded from the datasource. Either a simple where statement (e.g. 'CNTRY_NAME="Germany"') or a full select statement. Refer to the OGR SQL support documentation. If this option is unset, the first layer from the datasource will be used.

ogr_srs:

The SRS of the polygons.

Examples

sources

Use the coverage option to define a coverage for a WMS or tile source.

sources:
  mywms:
    type: wms
    req:
      url: http://example.com/service?
      layers: base
    coverage:
      bbox: [5, 50, 10, 55]
      bbox_srs: 'EPSG:4326'

mapproxy-seed

To define a seed-area in the seed.yaml, add the coverage directly to the views.

views:
  germany:
    ogr_datasource: 'shps/world_boundaries_m.shp'
    ogr_where: 'CNTRY_NAME = "Germany"'
    ogr_srs: 'EPSG:900913'
    level: [0, 14]
    srs: ['EPSG:900913', 'EPSG:4326']