[GRASS-user] using grass on rasters without converting?

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> > I'm not too familiar with the WMS driver.  But if it doesn't support
>> > skipping rows then it is a bug and should be fixed.  To file a ticket on
>> > this issue it would be helpful if a demonstration of the problem could
>> > be boiled down to a small C/C++ program or Python script just depending
>> > on GDAL.
>> >
>> > Adam Nowaki is the main author of the WMS driver.
>>
>> Unfortunately I am not skilled enough in Python to write down the
>> requested test case.
>
> Does "gdal_translate -outsize ..." work with WMS?

Apparently not:

gdal_translate -outsize 20% 20% wms_jpl_onearth.xml bla.tif
Input file size is 2666666, 1333333
0

... then it goes into poll time-out (according to strace).

Markus