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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:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2013-April/035951.html">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I tried the suggested approach and got errors. Here’s my command line:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">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"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The error is:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ERROR 4: `'WMS:http://geoint.lmic.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/wms?request=GetMap' does not exist in the file system,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone suggest why this doesn’t work? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jim<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.2pt">Jim Dickerson
<span style="color:#990033">| </span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;text-transform:uppercase"> Minnesota geospatial information office
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.0pt">GIS services coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.0pt">MN.IT Services,<span style="color:#990033">
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<b>| </b> 612-555-1090 (f) <b>|</b> <a href="mailto:Jim.Dickerson@state.mn.us">
Jim.Dickerson@state.mn.us</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:#5C83B4;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Information Technology for Minnesota Government
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