<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 27, 2014 5:15 PM, "Dickerson, Jim (MNIT)" <<a href="mailto:jim.dickerson@state.mn.us">jim.dickerson@state.mn.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">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:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2013-April/035951.html" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2013-April/035951.html</a> . I want to use this to make footprint files of the WMS images.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I tried the suggested approach and got errors. Here’s my command line:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">gdalinfo "WMS:<a href="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" target="_blank">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</a>"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The error is:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ERROR 4: `'WMS:<a href="http://geoint.lmic.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/wms?request=GetMap" target="_blank">http://geoint.lmic.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/wms?request=GetMap</a>' does not exist in the file system,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone suggest why this doesn’t work? <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jim<u></u><u></u></p>
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