[TCMUG] Using GDAL to make WMS footprints

[James Klassen]

Try the URL in a browser, but I'd bet it is because the MnGeo server
doesn't support "request=" it needs "Request=" or possibly "REQUEST="
instead.
On Feb 27, 2014 5:15 PM, "Dickerson, Jim (MNIT)" <jim.dickerson at state.mn.us>
wrote:

>  I don’t have much experience with GDAL but I found a forum message that
> shows how to use it to make geotiffs from WMS calls.  Here’s the link:
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> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2013-April/035951.html  .  I
> want to use this to make footprint files of the WMS images.
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> I tried the suggested approach and got errors.  Here’s my command line:
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> gdalinfo "WMS:
> http://geoint.lmic.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/wms?request=GetMap&version=1.1.1&layers=metro&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:26915&BBOX=475400,4969100,518800,4991000&width=1200&height=800d&format=image/jpeg
> "
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> The error is:
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> ERROR 4: `'WMS:http://geoint.lmic.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/wms?request=GetMap'
> does not exist in the file system,
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> and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.
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> Can anyone suggest why this doesn’t work?
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> Thanks,
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> Jim
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