Service Overview

1. Overview

After completing the tiling process, GISBox supports publishing the tiled data as services, which also entails distribution functionality. These services can include imagery services (such as WMS, WMTS), terrain services (like WMTS-Terrain), or three-dimensional model services (e.g., 3D Tiles). The generated service addresses can be utilized in GIS engines like Cesium or Cesium for Unreal, and they can also be integrated into platforms for building digital twin projects.

2. Add Distribution

There are two methods for distributing services: one is to publish the data as services simultaneously while creating tiles; the other is to manually add the tiled data and then generate the services.

2.1 Publishe as service

When tiling a file, you can publish it as a service at the same time. Here we use “Imagery Tiling” for demonstration:

Click “General Imagery” in the distribution to see the automatically generated image service, as shown below:

2.2 Add Manually

When tiling a file, if the “Publish as a service at the same time” setting is not checked, you need to add the distribution manually.

Click to switch to the distribution interface, and select the data type on the left. Here, we will use “General Terrain” as an example for demonstration, as shown in the figure below:

Then click the “Add” button on the right, as shown below:

In the pop-up “Add General Terrain Data”, select the local terrain path, as shown in the following figure:

Click the “Confirm” button to complete the addition, and a regular terrain service is generated.

3. Manage Distribution

Check the service you want to delete, and then click the “Delete” button on the left to delete the selected service.

Click the “Folder” button to view the local path of the slice, as shown below:

Click the “Copy” button to copy the service address, as shown below:

Click the “View” button to open and view it in the browser, as shown below: