[GRASS-user] Any freely available topographical maps for (South-) Germany ?

Thu Jun 12 14:35:14 EDT 2008

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 07:49 -0700, Hamish wrote:

> Hamish:
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Thank you for the details.
> 
> 
> no geotiff support.  set format= to one of the above.
> 
> I tried in a WGS84 lat/lon loc:
> 
> g.region n=50:30N s=47:15N w=9E e=13:45E res=0:00:30
> r.in.wms mapserver="$SERVER" layer=TK50 out=TK50_Bavaria format=png -g
Can't get it working. Is the "-g" flag in svn 63release or 63dev? I
don't have it.
> 
> it seemed to work, but I only got a blank map. Maybe you will have better luck. Using "-g" I got a "(c) Bayerische ..." in the image, without "-g" I didn't. shrug.
> 
> maybe you can get something from v.in.wfs?
But this concerns only vector data, no?

> or try QGIS's or GDAL 1.5+'s WMS import tools?

QGIS seems gets the "layers" but doesn't connect/download.

(I didn't try the GDAL_wms yet)