[GRASS-user] WMS fails on Geosciences Australia downloads

[Richard Chirgwin]

Hamish wrote:
>>> Richard wrote:
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>>>> I am trying to access layers on the Geosciences Australia
>>>> OGC Web Map server:
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>> http://www.ga.gov.au/wms/getmap?dataset=national&request=getCapabilities
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> Hamish:
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>>> which version of GRASS?
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> Richard:
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>> Grass 6.2.2 cvs, Ubuntu build. Sorry for neglecting that!
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> ok, there have been a number of improvements to r.in.wms to deal with brain dead WMS servers (*cough* ArcIMS *cough*) since 6.2.2, could you try GRASS 6.2.3 or 6.3.0? r.in.wms is enough of a woven mess of modules that it is hard to recommend to just grab the latest version of the script from SVN as there are a number of things to grab etc.
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> anyway the newer version follows more to the letter of the WMS spec, which means it should [hopefully] work with most WMS servers now.
> (ie even those which are not able to deal with http POST data)
> it is still not perfect, hopefully someone will rewrite it in a more sane language soon (ie python).
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> Hamish
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Regrettably, the upgrade to Grass-GIS 6.3 did not work ...

Richard
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