[Qgis-user] Does QGIS Support WMS Tile Service?

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Bob

The WMS system in QGIS does not support TMS.
A possibility to access it in QGIS is via GDAL. TMS is supported in GDAL 1.7 
(see http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms.html)

Regards,
Marco

Am Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2009 13.52:12 schrieb Bob Bruce:
> I found that I was unable to connect to the Onearth NASA WMS server for
> the global_mosaic visual_bright layer and found that the server was
> overloaded and wouldn't serve the image. They recommend that their tile
> server be used instead, so I was trying to figure out how to get QGIS
> (Mimas 1.3.0 on Vista) to use the Tiled WMS and have been unable to do
> this. This service is described on the website:
> http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/tiled.html - I added the URL:
> http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi?request=GetTileService to my WMS
> connections and when I tried to connect to it, I got this message:
> 
> Could not understand the response. The wms provider said:
> 
> Could not get WMS capabilities in the expected format (DTD): no
> WMS_Capabilities or WMT_MS_Capabilities found
> 
> This is probably due to an incorrect WMS Server URL.
> 
> Tried URL:
> http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi?request=GetTileService&SERVICE=WMS&REQU
> EST=GetCapabilities
> 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> 
> thanks,
>              Bob Bruce
> 
> 
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