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Ok, scratch that. I had remembered that server was particularly
strict w.r.t case, but the command is working as is for me:<br>
<br>
$ gdalinfo --version<br>
GDAL 1.9.0, released 2011/12/29<br>
<br>
$ gdalinfo
"WMS:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 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">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>"<br>
Driver: WMS/OGC Web Map Service<br>
Files: none associated<br>
Size is 1073741824, 541065216<br>
Coordinate System is:<br>
PROJCS["NAD83 / UTM zone 15N",<br>
GEOGCS["NAD83",<br>
DATUM["North_American_Datum_1983",<br>
SPHEROID["GRS 1980",6378137,298.257222101,<br>
AUTHORITY["EPSG","7019"]],<br>
TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0],<br>
AUTHORITY["EPSG","6269"]],<br>
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,<br>
AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],<br>
UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,<br>
AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],<br>
AUTHORITY["EPSG","4269"]],<br>
PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],<br>
PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],<br>
PARAMETER["central_meridian",-93],<br>
PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996],<br>
PARAMETER["false_easting",500000],<br>
PARAMETER["false_northing",0],<br>
UNIT["metre",1,<br>
AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],<br>
AXIS["Easting",EAST],<br>
AXIS["Northing",NORTH],<br>
AUTHORITY["EPSG","26915"]]<br>
Origin = (475400.000000000000000,4991000.000000000000000)<br>
Pixel Size = (0.000040419399738,-0.000040475712266)<br>
Image Structure Metadata:<br>
INTERLEAVE=PIXEL<br>
Corner Coordinates:<br>
Upper Left ( 475400.000, 4991000.000) ( 93d18'45.05"W, 45d
4'19.32"N)<br>
Lower Left ( 475400.000, 4969100.000) ( 93d18'41.20"W,
44d52'29.62"N)<br>
Upper Right ( 518800.000, 4991000.000) ( 92d45'40.20"W, 45d
4'19.96"N)<br>
Lower Right ( 518800.000, 4969100.000) ( 92d45'43.14"W,
44d52'30.25"N)<br>
Center ( 497100.000, 4980050.000) ( 93d 2'12.40"W,
44d58'25.99"N)<br>
Band 1 Block=1024x1024 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Red<br>
Overviews: 536870912x270532608, 268435456x135266304,
134217728x67633152, 67108864x33816576, 33554432x16908288,
16777216x8454144, 8388608x4227072, 4194304x2113536, 2097152x1056768,
1048576x528384, 524288x264192, 262144x132096, 131072x66048,
65536x33024, 32768x16512, 16384x8256, 8192x4128, 4096x2064,
2048x1032, 1024x516<br>
Mask Flags: PER_DATASET ALPHA <br>
Overviews of mask band: 536870912x270532608, 268435456x135266304,
134217728x67633152, 67108864x33816576, 33554432x16908288,
16777216x8454144, 8388608x4227072, 4194304x2113536, 2097152x1056768,
1048576x528384, 524288x264192, 262144x132096, 131072x66048,
65536x33024, 32768x16512, 16384x8256, 8192x4128, 4096x2064,
2048x1032, 1024x516<br>
Band 2 Block=1024x1024 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Green<br>
Overviews: 536870912x270532608, 268435456x135266304,
134217728x67633152, 67108864x33816576, 33554432x16908288,
16777216x8454144, 8388608x4227072, 4194304x2113536, 2097152x1056768,
1048576x528384, 524288x264192, 262144x132096, 131072x66048,
65536x33024, 32768x16512, 16384x8256, 8192x4128, 4096x2064,
2048x1032, 1024x516<br>
Mask Flags: PER_DATASET ALPHA <br>
Overviews of mask band: 536870912x270532608, 268435456x135266304,
134217728x67633152, 67108864x33816576, 33554432x16908288,
16777216x8454144, 8388608x4227072, 4194304x2113536, 2097152x1056768,
1048576x528384, 524288x264192, 262144x132096, 131072x66048,
65536x33024, 32768x16512, 16384x8256, 8192x4128, 4096x2064,
2048x1032, 1024x516<br>
Band 3 Block=1024x1024 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Blue<br>
Overviews: 536870912x270532608, 268435456x135266304,
134217728x67633152, 67108864x33816576, 33554432x16908288,
16777216x8454144, 8388608x4227072, 4194304x2113536, 2097152x1056768,
1048576x528384, 524288x264192, 262144x132096, 131072x66048,
65536x33024, 32768x16512, 16384x8256, 8192x4128, 4096x2064,
2048x1032, 1024x516<br>
Mask Flags: PER_DATASET ALPHA <br>
Overviews of mask band: 536870912x270532608, 268435456x135266304,
134217728x67633152, 67108864x33816576, 33554432x16908288,
16777216x8454144, 8388608x4227072, 4194304x2113536, 2097152x1056768,
1048576x528384, 524288x264192, 262144x132096, 131072x66048,
65536x33024, 32768x16512, 16384x8256, 8192x4128, 4096x2064,
2048x1032, 1024x516<br>
Band 4 Block=1024x1024 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Alpha<br>
Overviews: 536870912x270532608, 268435456x135266304,
134217728x67633152, 67108864x33816576, 33554432x16908288,
16777216x8454144, 8388608x4227072, 4194304x2113536, 2097152x1056768,
1048576x528384, 524288x264192, 262144x132096, 131072x66048,
65536x33024, 32768x16512, 16384x8256, 8192x4128, 4096x2064,
2048x1032, 1024x516<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/27/2014 04:59 PM, Dickerson, Jim
(MNIT) wrote:<br>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I tried the suggested approach and got
errors. Here’s my command line:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">gdalinfo
"WMS:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 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">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>"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The error is:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ERROR 4:
`'WMS:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://geoint.lmic.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/wms?request=GetMap">http://geoint.lmic.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/wms?request=GetMap</a>'
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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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">
</span>Central</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:1.0pt;line-height:110%"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:110%">651-201-2484
(w)
<b>| </b> 612-555-1090 (f) <b>|</b> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
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
</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> <b>|</b> </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;letter-spacing:1.0pt"> </span><a
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