[Mapserver-users] ArcExplorer/ WMS questions

[Matthew Perry]

Hello,

 I have been playing with ESRI's new OGC
interoperability extension for ArcExplorer. I have
been unable to connect to any WMS server (haven't
tried WFS) but it looks like it should be doable. Has
anyone had any success with this?? Are there any good
resources/tutorials for this extension??

--I have successfully tried the following layer as a
mapserver WMS client:

LAYER
 NAME "wms_map"
 TYPE RASTER
 STATUS OFF
 CONNECTION "http://terraservice.net/OgcMap.ashx?"
 CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
 METADATA
        "wms_srs"             "EPSG:26910"
        "wms_name"            "DRG"
        "wms_server_version"  "1.1.1"
        "wms_format"          "image/jpeg"
        "wms_layers"          "drg"
 END
 PROJECTION
        "init=epsg:26910"
 END
END

-- I have successfully tried the following URL:

http://terraservice.net/OgcMap.ashx?service=wms&request=GetMap&version=1.1.1&layers=DRG&bbox=573000,4530000,579000,4536000&styles=blank&width=500&height=500&format=image/jpeg&srs=epsg:26910

-- Yet when I enter this url in the
Interoperability->Connect to WMS dialog box, it
doesn't find the capabilities and fails. I have tried
to stip all the arguments, left some arguments, put
everything in quotes etc... Nothing seems to work for
me. Does anyone have any experience with ArcExplorer's
interoperability that could help me debug this
problem??

Personally, it seems like a pretty lame attempt by
ESRI at standards compliance but at least its a start!

Matt Perry
Humboldt State University