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servers

Return URLs of unique WMS servers

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Syntax

serverURLs = servers(layers)

Description

serverURLs = servers(layers) returns the URLs of unique servers associated with Web map service layers, layers.

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Examples

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Open Live Script

Search the WMS Database for government servers. Set the unique URLs to a variable.

layers = wmsfind('*.gov*','SearchField','serverurl');
serverURLs = servers(layers);
Open Live Script

Search the WMS Database for servers that contain information about clouds. Set the unique server URLs to a variable.

temperature = wmsfind('clouds');
serverURLs = servers(temperature);

Display the server URLs and the number of layers that reference the URL.

for k=1:numel(serverURLs)
   querystr = serverURLs{k};
   layers = refine(temperature,querystr, ...
      'SearchFields', 'serverurl');
   fprintf('Server URL\n%s\n', layers(1).ServerURL);
   fprintf('Number of layers: %d\n\n', numel(layers));
end
Server URL
https://disc1.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/wms_omi?

Number of layers: 2

Server URL
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wms?

Number of layers: 8

Your results might be different because the WMS Database changes each release.

Input Arguments

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Layers to provide server URLs, specified as an array of WMSLayer objects.

Output Arguments

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URLs of unique servers, returned as a cell array of character vectors.

Version History

Introduced in R2009b

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