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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks Jim, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m using GDAL 1.7.0 from FWTools and pasting your URL still gives an error. I’ll upgrade and see if that helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Jim Dickerson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">MNGeo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">651-201-2484<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Jim Klassen [mailto:klassen.js@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 27, 2014 5:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dickerson, Jim (MNIT); Tcmug@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [TCMUG] Using GDAL to make WMS footprints<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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>
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$ gdalinfo --version<br>
GDAL 1.9.0, released 2011/12/29<br>
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$ 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">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,
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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,
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 02/27/2014 04:59 PM, Dickerson, Jim (MNIT) wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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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>
<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","serif"">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">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>"</span><o:p></o:p></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 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>
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