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Easily Integrate with Other Applications

Express Server's Web Map Service (WMS) support means WMS-enabled clients can integrate your Express Server image repositories with WMS-compliant data stores anywhere in the world. Publish your images in a variety of coordinate systems and let Express Server reproject them on the fly, so your users can work with their imagery however they need to. For users of ESRI products, Express Server includes a plug-in for ArcMap, so imagery hundreds of gigabytes in size can be delivered via any connection speed right to the desktop. Find WMS-Compliant Applications.

Express Server can also be used to provide image delivery functionality to your Web applications. Whether you want your application to be viewed via Ajax, Flash, or other methods, Express Server has you covered. You can use Express Server's included sample applications to view or show off your imagery right out of the box. Customizing the sample applications is an easy way to get started running Express Server. Just grab the source code and go!

AJAX Demo: MODIS

This imagery is being served via LizardTech Express Server and viewed using an Ajax application. Panning, zooming, and other navigation is easy and intuitive. This application is included with Express Server for easy customization.

Launch AJAX Demo: MODIS

AJAX Demo: Iowa Environmental Mesonet

The background imagery is being served via Express Server as a WMS layer, while the Iowa Environmental Mesonet provides the weather radar information, also via WMS. WMS capability not only means easy integration with third-party applications, but can also be used to build Web applications.

This simple demonstration shows how Express Server can be combined with other datasets to quickly provide information to users. Both the background image layer, served by Express Server, and the weather data from Iowa State University are being delivered via WMS. This makes integrating the two sources easy. The sample code below shows how easy it is to combine the layers. More information on the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Sample Code:

<script defer="defer" type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
    var map = new OpenLayers.Map('wmap');
    var wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "MODIS",
        "http://demo.lizardtech.com/lizardtech/iserv/ows",
        {layers: 'bmng.200410.topobathy',
        exceptions:"application/vnd.ogc.se_xml"},
	{tileSize: new OpenLayers.Size(256,256),
	buffer: 1 } );

    map.addLayer(wms);

    var nexrad_wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "NEXRAD
    	BASE REFLECT M45 MINS",
"http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n0r.cgi",
	{layers: 'nexrad-n0r-m45m',
	exceptions:"application/vnd.ogc.se_xml",
	transparent: "true", format: "image/png"},
	{ tileSize: new OpenLayers.Size(256,256),
	buffer: 1 } );

    nexrad_wms.setVisibility(true);
    map.addLayer(nexrad_wms);
//]]>
</script>

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