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hi all community, i think 'll be nice if here get a topic or section for share maps did in different works made in consulting study or in another , this is useful for inspired our creative spirits ....so if someone have the same intention i wanna to share snapshot of maps made by my selft. regards

Yes Global Mapper is the simplest way... but it's not very flexible and in lots of cases it just doesn't do the job (WMS-C with custom resolutions, also lots of servers restricts tiles to 256px size, etc.) It would be nice to be able to control the scales, resolutions projections and tilesize... however it doesn't seem to be the priority of the developers. Another flaw : it's also very slow (MOBAC uses various threads to download simultaneous tiles). In my opinion GDAL is the best.

The absolute best solution is using globalmapper. Add the WMS feed as custom data source and when it loads up, export to raster. Globalmapper will automatically zoom in to the highest resolution available and create a properly georeferenced tile. I have one computer going on a source for all of Ontario at the moment. The best part is it is automated so you can just let it run.

Various solutions... such as Mobile Atlas Creator http://mobac.sourceforge.net/ (restricted to EPSG:4326), Global Mapper (restricted to 512 pixels tiles) and the most versatile : GDAL. Quite complicated since it's command line only, but supports all types of drivers and projections, even with tiled services : http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms.html

Probably too late for original poster, but for anybody else with similar problem: It is possible and rather simple. As you might know, WMS can be accessed through web browser, if you write all necessary parameters into address. And you can download that image using Save As function. Now, doing all this by hand is awfully time-consuming and tiresome. So you could create the links by some kind of function (maybe in Excel) and later feed that list to some kind of downloader (like wget). As for the parameters, I recommend using GeoTIFF as image format, as it is already georeferenced. Set the height and width to maximum available (usually 2048 pixels). Bounding box coordinates should be set using a function, so that on file's ending is at next one's start. Map page edge length in real measures (meters, miles, degrees - whatever you have) should be set by original resolution. Sample request is following (not working, I know, but should give right impression. Replace the server address and layer names with whatever you need): http://porter.pmel.noaa.gov:8922/wms/wms_servlet?VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=coads_climatology_cdf:airt&STYLES=&WIDTH=2048&HEIGHT=2048&FORMAT=image/tiff&SRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=-180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 While this is pretty confusing at first, it gets easier when you get the hang of it. After all, it is the only way to use WMS data on cheaper AutoCAD versions.