WFS Downloader

Downloads GML files from a set of WFS service in a pseudo-paginated way using bounding boxes and combine them again to one file.

Install

pip install wfs-downloader

Usage

Create a config.yml specifying your setup like this:

url: http://fbinter.stadt-berlin.de/fb/wfs/data/senstadt/s_wfs_baumbestand_an
layer: fis:s_wfs_baumbestand_an

bbox:
  west:   370000.0
  south: 5800000.0
  east:   415000.0
  north: 5837000.0

size: 10000
outputfile: strassenbaeume.xml
projection: EPSG:25833
tmpdir: /tmp

where:

• url is the url of the WFS Service,
• layer is the name of the Layer,
• bbox is the bounding box for th objects you want to retrieve,
• size is the extend of a single request (or page),
• outputfile is the name of the resulting GML file,
• projection is the used projection, and
• tmpfile is the path to the directory to store temporary files for each request.

Then run the script with the config.yml as argument:

wfs-downloader config.yml

Help

$ wfs-downloader --help
usage: Downloads GML files from a set of WFS service in a pseudo-paginated way using bounding boxes and combine them again to one file. The WFS services are specified in settings.py.

positional arguments:
  config         config file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --no-download  skip the download
  --no-combine   skip the combine