[GRASS-user] gdal 1.5 and WMS ressource --- PREVIOUSLY:How to best access hundreds of orthophotos -- mapserver as WMS server?

[Moritz Lennert]

On 03/01/08 14:06, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> On 02/01/08 21:37, sebastian sauer wrote:
>>> Wed 02 Jan 2008 18:27, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>>> you wrote in the a previous thread that one can use gdal 1.5 
>>>> directly to access a WMS ressource which is defined in an xml file 
>>>> (see snippet below).
>>>> As 1.5 is out (and I compiled with MrSid support - works nicely by 
>>>> the way), I looked but could find no information on that feature. 
>>>> Could you please elaborate how I can use this instead of setting up 
>>>> a mapserver on localhost?
>>> my understanding was - feel free to correct me - dylan was refering to
>>> the OGR/GDAL vrt driver.
>>>
>>> http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html
>>> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html
>>
>> I would rather guess it was the "WMS -- Web Map Services" driver:
>>
> 
> Ah - now I understand. I still have to set up a WMS server, but I can 
> access it through gdal instead of using r.in.wms.

Well, if you have the data directly accessible, I don't know if it is 
the most efficient way to access it via a webserver and wms. The main 
insterest of this is obviously to get data from a distant wms server...

Moritz