Coverages#

With coverages you can define areas where data is available or where data you are interested in is. MapProxy supports coverages for sources, caches and in the mapproxy-seed tool. Refer to the corresponding section in the documentation.

There are five different ways to describe a coverage:

  • a simple rectangular bounding box,

  • a text file with one or more (multi)polygons in WKT format,

  • a GeoJSON file with (multi)polygons features,

  • (multi)polygons from any data source readable with OGR (e.g. Shapefile, GeoJSON, PostGIS),

  • a file with webmercator tile coordinates.

New in version 1.10.

You can also build intersections, unions and differences between multiple coverages.

Requirements#

If you want to use polygons to define a coverage, instead of simple bounding boxes, you will also need Shapely and GEOS. For loading polygons from shapefiles you’ll also need GDAL/OGR.

MapProxy requires Shapely 1.2.0 or later and GEOS 3.1.0 or later.

On Debian:

sudo aptitude install libgeos-dev libgdal-dev
pip install Shapely

Configuration#

All coverages are configured by defining the source of the coverage and the SRS. The configuration of the coverage depends on the type. The SRS can allways be configured with the srs option.

New in version 1.5.0: MapProxy can autodetect the type of the coverage. You can now use datasource instead of the bbox, polygons or ogr_datasource option. The old options are still supported.

Coverage Types#

Bounding box#

For simple box coverages.

bbox or datasource:

A simple BBOX as a list of minx, miny, maxx, maxy, e.g: [4, -30, 10, -28] or as a string 4,-30,10,-28.

Polygon file#

Text files with one WKT polygon or multi-polygon per line. You can create your own files or use one of the files we provide for every country. Read the index to find your country.

datasource:

The path to the polygon file. Should be relative to the proxy configuration or absolute.

GeoJSON#

New in version 1.10: Previous versions required OGR/GDAL for reading GeoJSON.

You can use GeoJSON files with Polygon and MultiPolygons geometries. FeatureCollections and Features of these geometries are suppored as well. MapProxy uses OGR to read GeoJSON files if you define a where filter.

datasource:

The path to the GeoJSON file. Should be relative to the proxy configuration or absolute.

OGR datasource#

Any polygon datasource that is supported by OGR (e.g. Shapefile, GeoJSON, PostGIS).

datasource:

The name of the datasource. Refer to the OGR format page for a list of all supported datasources. File paths should be relative to the proxy configuration or absolute.

where:

Restrict which polygons should be loaded from the datasource. Either a simple where statement (e.g. "CNTRY_NAME='Germany'") or a full select statement. Refer to the OGR SQL support documentation. If this option is unset, the first layer from the datasource will be used.

Expire tiles#

New in version 1.10.

Text file with webmercator tile coordinates. The tiles should be in z/x/y format (e.g. 14/1283/6201), with one tile coordinate per line. Only tiles in the webmercator grid are supported (origin is always nw).

expire_tiles:

File or directory with expire tile files. Directories are loaded recursive.

Union#

New in version 1.10.

A union coverage contains the combined coverage of one or more sub-coverages. This can be used to combine multiple coverages a single source. Each sub-coverage can be of any supported type and SRS.

union:

A list of multiple coverages.

Difference#

New in version 1.10.

A difference coverage subtracts the coverage of other sub-coverages from the first coverage. This can be used to exclude parts from a coverage. Each sub-coverage can be of any supported type and SRS.

difference:

A list of multiple coverages.

Intersection#

New in version 1.10.

An intersection coverage contains only areas that are covered by all sub-coverages. This can be used to limit a larger coverage to a smaller area. Each sub-coverage can be of any supported type and SRS.

difference:

A list of multiple coverages.

Clipping#

New in version 1.10.0.

By default MapProxy tries to get and serve full source image even if a coverage only touches it. Clipping by coverage can be enabled by setting clip: true. If enabled, all areas outside the coverage will be converted to transparent pixels.

The clip option is only active for source coverages and not for seeding coverages.

Examples#

sources#

Use the coverage option to define a coverage for a WMS or tile source.

sources:
  mywms:
    type: wms
    req:
      url: http://example.com/service?
      layers: base
    coverage:
      bbox: [5, 50, 10, 55]
      srs: 'EPSG:4326'

Example of an intersection coverage with clipping:

sources:
  mywms:
    type: wms
    req:
      url: http://example.com/service?
      layers: base
    coverage:
      clip: true
      intersection:
        - bbox: [5, 50, 10, 55]
          srs: 'EPSG:4326'
        - datasource: coverage.geojson
          srs: 'EPSG:4326'

caches#

Use the coverage option to define a coverage for any cache.

caches:
  mycache:
    grids: [GLOBAL_GEODETIC]
    sources: []
    cache:
      type: geopackage
      filename: file.gpkg
      table_name: mygeopackage
      coverage:
        bbox: [5, 50, 10, 55]
        srs: 'EPSG:4326'

Note

You may define a coverage for both a source and the cache defined on that source, in this case the intersection of both coverages will be used. The coverage of a cache is meant to be contained in the coverage of it’s source, in other cases where it either intersects or has no intersection, there may be unexpected bahaviour.

Example for defining coverages for source and corresponding cache:

caches:
  mycache:
    grids: [GLOBAL_GEODETIC]
    sources: [mywms]
    cache:
      type: geopackage
      filename: file.gpkg
      table_name: mygeopackage
      coverage:
        bbox: [-10, -10, 10, 10]
        srs: 'EPSG:4326'

sources:
  mywms:
    type: wms
    req:
      url: http://example.com/service?
      layers: base
    coverage:
      bbox: [-50, -50, 50, 50]
      srs: 'EPSG:4326'

mapproxy-seed#

To define a seed-area in the seed.yaml, add the coverage directly to the view.

coverages:
  germany:
    datasource: 'shps/world_boundaries_m.shp'
    where: CNTRY_NAME = 'Germany'
    srs: 'EPSG:900913'

Here is the same example with a PostGIS source:

coverages:
  germany:
    datasource: "PG: dbname='db' host='host' user='user'
  password='password'"
    where: "select * from coverages where country='germany'"
    srs: 'EPSG:900913'

And here is an example with a GeoJSON source:

coverages:
  germany:
    datasource: 'boundary.geojson'
    srs: 'EPSG:4326'

See the OGR driver list for all supported formats.