The skinny WMS is a small WMS server that will help you to visualise your NetCDF and Grib Data. The principle is simple: skinny will browse the directory, or the single file passed as argument, and try to inpterpret each NetCDF or GRIB files. From the metadata, it will be build the getCapabilities document, and find a relevant styles to plot the data.
SkinnyWMS implements 3 of the WMS endpoints:
- getCapabilities: Discover the data, build an XML Document presenting each identified parameter in the file(s) as a layer with the list of their predefined styles. (There is always a default style)
- getMap : Return the selected layer suing the selected style.
- getLegendGraphic: Return the legend.
There are 2 ways to start using it, they both will start a small Flask server. Once running, a small leaflet client is accessible [http://127.0.0.1:5000/]
- The demo: $ python demo.py --path /path/to/mydata
- The command line: $ skinny-wms --path /path/to/mydata
SkinnyWMS depends on the ECMWF Magics library.
If you do not have Magics installed on your platform, skinnywms is available on conda forge https://conda-forge.org/::
$ conda config --add channels conda-forge
$ conda install skinnywms
If you have Magics already installed you can use pip::
$ pip install skinnywms
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SkinnyWMS will perform better on well formatted and documented NetCDF and GRIB.
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development stage: Alpha,
that must be installed on the system and accessible as a shared library. Some Linux distributions ship a binary version that may be installed with the standard package manager.
As an alternative you may install the official source distribution by following the instructions at https://software.ecmwf.int/magics/Installation+Guide Magics is available on github https://github.com/ecmwf/magics
Note that Magics support for the Windows operating system is experimental.
The main repository is hosted on GitHub, testing, bug reports and contributions are highly welcomed and appreciated:
https://github.com/ecmwf/skinnywms https://github.com/ecmwf/magics-python https://github.com/ecmwf/magics
Please see the CONTRIBUTING.rst document for the best way to help.
Lead developer:
Sylvie Lamy-Thepaut <https://github.com/sylvielamythepaut>_ - ECMWF
Main contributors:
Baudouin Raoult- ECMWFStephan Siemen <https://github.com/stephansiemen>_ - ECMWFMilana Vuckovic- ECMWF
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