[gdal-dev] Constructing GDAL_WMS XML files for TMS servers

[Even Rouault]

Le mardi 12 février 2013 20:23:02, Carl Godkin a écrit :
> Hi again,
> 
> A couple of weeks ago I learned how to use gdalinfo and gdal_translate to
> make the XML service files used by the WMS drivers.
> 
> For instance,
> 
>  gdalinfo "WMS:http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n0r.cgi"
> 
> produces a list of subdatasets and any of these can be turned into GDAL_WMS
> XML format like this:
> 
>  gdal_translate the_subdataset_name out.xml -of WMS
> 
> This works great for the regular WMS servers I've tried.
> 
> What about TMS servers?  Is there a similar command command for (say)
> http://tile.openstreetmap.org  ?

No, TMS servers has not a GetCapabilities request that can be used to self-
discover the properties of the layers. But typically there are just a 
variation of http://gdal.org/frmt_wms_openstreetmap_tms.xml

> 
> Thanks again for all the help,
> 
> carl