grumpy

OGC WMS 1.3.0 Server in java allowing custom rendering of WMS layers using projection utilities and Graphics2D.

Status: released to Maven Central

Release Notes

Maven reports including javadocs.

Features

• Great circle navigation utilities in grumpy-core
• Map projection utilities in grumpy-projection
• WMS Server utilities in grumpy-ogc
• Create a lightweight WMS server (about 12MB war)
• Supports BBOX parameters handled differently by WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3
• Handles boundary discontinuities with Reducer and RendererUtil methods
• War artifact to deploy Darkness layer as WMS service (grumpy-app)

Serverless AWS implementation of grumpy with OpenLayers 6 and ArcGIS base layers:

Run demo locally

git clone https://github.com/davidmoten/grumpy.git
cd grumpy
mvn clean install
cd wms-demo
mvn jetty:run

Go to http://localhost:8080 with a browser.

And at the map link you will see this:

This demonstrates a custom filled shape and some text that is placed with transparency over the position of Canberra on the map. Notice that the borders are great circle paths.

Click in the Canberra box and you will see a demo of WMS GetFeatureInfo:

How is it all done? Easy!

Getting started

To make your own WMS service add this dependency to the pom.xml of your war project:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.davidmoten</groupId>
  <artifactId>grumpy-ogc</artifactId>
  <version>VERSION_HERE</version>
</dependency>

How to make your own WMS

Using a war project (you could just copy the wms-demo project and change its artifact and group id, remove the parent reference as well):

Create a layer:

See CustomLayer.java for how to render a layer using a Projector and a RendererUtil.

Create a servlet to serve the layer and capabilities:

See WmsServlet.java for how an HttpServlet is created to server WMS requests. You do need to register this servlet against a url of course in web.xml.

Define the service capabilities:

Note that this enables service discovery and is required from WMS clients like ArcGIS but is not required for an OpenLayers WMS client like in wms-demo.

There are two options

• Use Capabilities.builder() as in WmsServlet.java
• Use a classpath resource such as /wms-capabilities.xml with WmsServletRequestProcessor.builder().capabilitiesFromClasspath()

See wms-capabilities.xml which should conform to the OGC WMS 1.3 schema.

From this point you have a working WMS service against the url for the WmsServlet!

View the WMS:

Example WMS clients are included in wms-demo in map-3857.jsp and map-4326.jsp. The custom layer is referenced in layers.js.

wms-demo project uses OpenLayers javascript libraries and google maps v3 to display the world and the custom layer using the Spherical Mercator projection (EPSG 3857). See OpenLayers documentation and examples to play with this client as you see fit.

How to build

git clone https://github.com/davidmoten/grumpy.git
cd grumpy
mvn clean install

Drawing Regions

Drawing regions that extend over the polar areas is a bit tricky. The safest method is to use Reducer.render with an is inside value function and a filling ValueRenderer. See FiddleLayer.java. The Fiddle layer is visible in the demo.

Another example using the Reducer is the Darkness layer (also in the demo).

What is the Reducer?

The reducer is an abstraction of Steven Ring's original idea for implementing the Darkness layer. A reduction rendering comprises:

• a value function
• a rectangle sampler
• a rectangle renderer

In short the recursive algorithm is to start with a rectangle the size of the screen and if the points sampled across the rectangle (according to the rectangle sampler) differ in value (calculated using the value function) then the rectangle is split into sub-rectangles and the process continued recursively. Once the values sampled across a rectangle are all the same the rectangle is rendered with its one value using the rectangle renderer.

It's a useful way of handling projection weirdness by concentrating on the screen pixels. If the region you are trying to draw is irregular or small then you might need to use a custom sampler to be sure the region is detected at low scales. The Darkness layer is an example of a region that is smooth and large enough that corner sampling of rectangles is sufficient.

The Darkness layer

The module grumpy-ogc-layers contains the Darkness layer and it looks like this:

The bands correspond to the following twilight categories:

• Civil (the lightest)
• Nautical
• Astronomical
• Night (the darkest)

The layer is visible in the demo.

The grumpy-app artifact is a war artifact that can be deployed to a java servlet container (tomcat, glassfish, jetty, jboss, others) to offer a WMS service with the Darkness layer (and any other layers that get added to grumpy-ogc-layers).

Why Grumpy?

The project name was chosen at random and is no hint at the disposition of the primary developer! I'm very happy to receive contributions on this project. Just raise an issue.