[GRASS-user] Importing NAIP from WMS?

[Jeff McKenna]

I guess I cheated here and used d.wms (gui) instead of an r.in.wms 
command.  Anyway, I tried :)

-jeff



-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/



On 2017-07-04 10:54 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Followup:  I was able to get the NAIP California WMS service working 
> with GRASS, here were my steps:
> 
> - installed winGRASS 7.3-dev from 
> https://wingrass.fsv.cvut.cz/grass73/x86_64/
> 
> - followed steps in the manual to execute a GetCapabilities request:
> 
>     - in "Console" tab, executed this command:
> 
>           r.in.wms -c 
> url=https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer? 
> 
> 
> - then used the "Add web service layer" menu item in GRASS:
> 
>     - File/Map display/Add web service layer
> 
>     - in the "Server" box enter: 
> https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/California_2016_60cm/ImageServer/WMSServer? 
> and click "Connect"
> 
>     - wait for GetCapabilities to be parsed
> 
>     - you should see a new dialogue window below open, with a layer listed
> 
>     - click on the layer, select "EPSG:4326" as your source projection 
> (assuming you have setup a GRASS location for that projection), select 
> "png", and press "Add Layer"
> 
> - the California image should appear in your map display
> 
> - note that I used another WMS service to load the world continents 
> (such as http://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wms?) and then zoomed into 
> California extents that way, so I could see that layer
> 
> - should look like: https://pasteboard.co/GznOi0u.png
> 
> Hope that helps!  Have a good week (and happy late Canada Day!!)
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
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