[gdal-dev] WMS problem

[Michele Zanin]

Dear friends,
   I'm playing with the WMS format from GDAL (svn version, 18323).
Please note it's my first try with WMS, so it is possible i'm missing
something important.

I discovered some inconsistencies about documentation and actual
parameters for the xml config file.

In the official documentation http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms.html , the
layer is selected with the <Layers> tag.

_ the TileService mini-driver requires <Dataset> (undocumented)
_ the WorldWind mini-driver requires <Layer> (without the 's', undocumented).

The affected files are:
./frmts/wms/minidriver_worldwind.cpp
./frmts/wms/minidriver_tileservice.cpp

Also, after some try&error (mainly caused by the fact that the right
SizeX and SizeY are not derivable from GetCapabilities) I came up with
some working xml config files for accessing interesting WMS (e.g. US
topo from terraservice, PCN for Italy, BlueMarbleNG worldwind).
I think someone else did the same effort in the past and someone else
will do it in the future. In order to avoid other people to waste
their time, I think we could create a repository of tested config
file, maybe in the same http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms.html page. What
do you think? I'd like to share my files.

Thank you for your attention,
michele