[Mapserver-users] EOS Satellite Fire Detections for North America as WMS Server

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

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> From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu 
> [mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> John Norton
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 16:06
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] EOS Satellite Fire Detections for 
> North America as WMS Server
> 
> 
> I set up a WMS service for MODIS fire detections that we 
> collect from a variety of sources around North American along 
> with our satellite ground station in Salt Lake City. The URL 
> for the service is http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/wms/wms.asp
> A client called and said that MapInfo was reporting that the 
> service is returning HTML only. However, I used the 
> GetCapabilities and Getmap and they provide what I would 
> expect (XML without warnings/errors and an image). Is there 
> something strange about MapInfo? I pretty much followed the 
> HOW-TO 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc42/wms-server-> howto.html for 
> setting this up and I hijacked the asp script 
> to abstract the map file connection...thanks to whoever for 
> that one...I will probably rewrite in php before I announce 
> the resource on the main part of our website. Our 
> activefiremaps web site also uses mapscript (thanks DM 
> Solutions) for daily incident maps...I hope I made the 
> appropriate credits. Cheers John Norton
> -- 

Nice!  Works fine for me.  Question: is the data queryable or is it
turned off intentionally?

..Tom

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Tom Kralidis
Systems Scientist
Environment Canada
Tel: +01-905-336-4409
http://www.ec.gc.ca/


> Cheers
> John
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