[GRASS-user] gdal 1.5 and WMS ressource --- PREVIOUSLY:How to best access hundreds of orthophotos -- mapserver as WMS server?

[sebastian sauer]

Wed 02 Jan 2008 18:27, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> you wrote in the a previous thread that one can use gdal 1.5 directly to 
> access a WMS ressource which is defined in an xml file (see snippet below).
> As 1.5 is out (and I compiled with MrSid support - works nicely by the 
> way), I looked but could find no information on that feature. Could you 
> please elaborate how I can use this instead of setting up a mapserver on 
> localhost?
my understanding was - feel free to correct me - dylan was refering to
the OGR/GDAL vrt driver.

http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html

s.