[GRASS-dev] wms in wxgrass?

[Hamish]

> > Agustin Diez Castillo wrote:
> >> Today, I have been able to use r.in.wms for the first time with
> >some > success,
> >
> > good news!
> >
> >> Others are giving me some errors beyond both my capabilities
> >> and their capabilities. The mapserver in the example works in QGis
> >> and others,
> >> I can't get even the capabilities
> >> r.in.wms mapserver=http://ovc.catastro.meh.es/Cartografia/WMS/
> >> ServidorWMS.aspx -l
> >
> > I have just made the error handling better in CVS, could you update 
> > and try once again?
>
> I will update and keep checking.
>
> > That shows the real error was:
> > "Este servicio sirve para ser utilizado por programas de
> > visualización de cartografía. No es una página web."
> >
> > you should see that now, both for the layers list and the broken
> > download. Sorry, I can't help you with the server error itself.
>
> It says that this service have been developed for cartographic  
> applications. This is not a web page. So the error is not help as far
> as grass is the best cartogpraphic application I'm aware of and I'm  
> not looking for a web page.

I really don't know enough about WMS servers to answer.
The help page mentions adding "?" to the URL, but that doesn't help.


> >> WARNING: xml2 NOT avaliable
> I knew that, and I think it is there /Library/Frameworks/ 
> libxml.framework/Versions/2.6.26/Resources/Scripts/xml2-config.
> >
> > xml2 is a program, it's not needed, but helps parse the XML better
> > if it's there.
> >   http://ofb.net/~egnor/xml2/

xml2-config is something else, part of Gnome's libxml. It's needed to
compile xml2, but xml2 is something more.

$ apropos xml2-config
xml2-config (1)      - script to get information about the installed
version of GNOME-XML


Hamish