[gdal-dev] broken wms examples (frmt page)

[Even Rouault]

Le lundi 02 janvier 2012 21:29:25, Martin Landa a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> some of the examples from WMS frmt page [1] do not work, eg.
> 
> gdal_translate -of JPEG -outsize 500 250
> frmt_wms_onearth_global_mosaic.xml onearth_global_mosaic.jpg
> Input file size is 2949120, 1474560
> 0ERROR 1: GDALWMS: The server returned exception: This server no
> longer provides full WMS services!
> 
> ERROR 1: frmt_wms_onearth_global_mosaic.xml, band 1: IReadBlock failed
> at X offset 0, Y offset 0
> 
> I am using gdal from SVN trunk.

Yes, the OnEarth server no longer accept regular WMS. I've added a note in the 
WMS driver documentation page about that, so that people aren't surprised. 
Ultimately another working example should be found, and if possible one that 
doesn't disappear too early ;-)

> 
> Best regards, Martin Landa
> 
> [1] http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms.html