


The URL for the WMS appears in the WMS Server Connections dialog box.Īnd a link to this WMS server is added to the Background Maps sub-menu. Step 3: In the Add WMS Server Connection dialog box, type or paste the URL of the WMS server. Step 2: In the WMS Server Connections dialog box, click Add. Step 1: Select Map > Background Maps > WMS Servers. Some of the text in the remainder of this post borrows from Tableau’s KB article on Mapping Data with WMS, focused on how to add and use a WMS server. And I must say, this is quite possibly the coolest WMS I’ve seen. Mel Stephenson pointed him to the NASA Earth Observations WMS. Last Wednesday, Matthew Dawson-Paver, a Business Planning Performance Analyst at Skype asked on Tableau’s LinkedIn group: How can you connect Tableau to NASA's Blue Marble WMS servers?
