GIS.lab WMS Viewer improvements

WMS Viewer web application is one of the killer features of GIS.lab server (see my earlier post). It allows automatic publication of user created QGIS projects without any need of configuration. My colleague Marcel has spent a time with adding some nice features.

At first he added nice toolbar containing basic tools like pan, zoom and measures.

Than he improved application with nice feature info tool and attribute table. Currently it is only available when QGIS development version is used on server, because it depends on GetFeatureInfo output in GML format which was added just recently. You can install it manually from my PPA.

$ vagrant ssh
$ sudo su -
$ sed -i "s/qgis2/qgis-master/" /etc/apt/sources.list
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install qgis qgis-common qgis-providers qgis-providers-common \
qgis-mapserver --no-install-recommends
$ service apache2 restart

Besides these features we have improved overall layers loading performance by grouping all overlay layer in one GetMap request. It seems that it helped a lot.

You can try these new features in master Git branch.