Getting ESRI to talk to my WMS

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jason,

I just recently had to set up some data through WMS for some remote
ArcGIS users.  I did not have to include any special parameters/metadata
that i know of for the WMS server.  I did however add optional metadata
for each layer, such as "wms_srs".  I used mapserv version 4.4.1.  maybe
i got lucky :)

maybe you could include a small test wms-server mapfile (that fails in
arc) for everyone on the list.


jeff




Jason Grimes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have set up a WMS service on my local machine.  We would like to give
> ArcGIS users access to the layers but it will not talk to the WMS
> service.  I can get Jump to talk and of course MapServer/Chameleon also
> talks with the service and no problems.  Is there a specific way in
> which you have to set up the map file?  According to my research ArcGIS
> will not connect up to WMS servers that use any other projection except
> a Lat/Lon one. I re-projected some of our data using EPSG:4326 and setup
> a map file with only this projection and ArcGIS will still not talk.  It
> reads the capabilities just fine, but after that it will not contact the
> server again.  I have watched the Apache logs and I can see the
> capabilities request come through and then nothing.  I have also tried
> other services like the DM Solutions demo here:
>
> http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswms_gmap
>
> And it works fine with ArcGIS.  Maybe one of the DM Solutions guys could
> point me in the right direction.  :)  Any help would be most appretiated
> and if there is a way of having the WMS also work with meter based
> projections (like Albers) at the same time would be great too.  Thanks,
>
> Jason
>


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Jeff McKenna
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca