GLOBAL LANDSAT WMS is back up

joerg pfeiffer superbla3000 at GMX.NET
Tue Nov 2 12:35:40 PST 2004


Unfortuantely it's down again.... those were nice 8 hours...

Joerg



Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> Joerg kindly pointed out to me that the NASA JPL Landsat WMS service is back
> up.  Here is an image of one of the maps from my global mapping site showing
> it in action:
> http://spatialguru.com/tmp/Global_map109940776910153.png
>
> The WMS Capabilities for that landsat is at:
> http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi?Request=GetCapabilities
>
> Note that if you request maps too quickly it appears to timeout -- I assume
> it's some function of a firewall??
>
> Here's my map file setup for this layer.  Enjoy - but don't over do it - they
> had to bring this site down earlier due to too much traffic from the
> WorldWind project.  MapServer apps weren't a problem though!
>
> LAYER
>   NAME global_landsat
>   TYPE RASTER
>   STATUS OFF
>   CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
>   CONNECTION "http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi?"
>   MAXSCALE 10000000
>   MINSCALE 20000
>   METADATA
>     "wms_name" "global_mosaic"
>     "wms_srs" "EPSG:4326"
>     "wms_styles" "visual"
>     "wms_server_version" "1.1.1"
>     "wms_layers" "global_mosaic"
>     "wms_request" "GetMap"
>     "wms_format" "image/jpeg"
>     "wms_connectiontimeout" "60"
>     "wms_title" "global_mosaic_from_NASA_WMS"
>   END
> END
>
>



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