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How to setup a NASA WorldWind elevation server

How to setup a NASA WorldWind elevation server

Introduction

This guide shows how to create a WMS server on a local VM using Apache, MapServer and elevation data sets curated by NASA. This WMS server serves as a model for a production MapServer instance to be deployed on an a network.

The guide contains a brief overview of how the WorldWind clients make requests, followed by instructions for setting up the Apache web server, MapServer and the Apache caching.