Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL WMS questions...

2013-01-30 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Carl Godkin wrote: > 2. Tiles > > I don't understand why or when I'd use a tiled vs. untiled request. If I'm > interested in a JPEG or PNG from a particular server covering a particular > area in a particular coordinate system, why would I choose one over the >

Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL WMS questions...

2013-01-30 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Carl, I'm afraid I'm not clear on the intricacies here either. I think the CRS and SRS elements are to override how the request is sent to the remote WMS server while the element is how the projection is described to GDAL (as returned by GDALDataset::GetProjectionRef()). I believe these are no

Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL WMS questions...

2013-01-30 Thread Carl Godkin
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Travis Kirstine wrote: > My guess is that SRS is used when connecting to a WMS Version <= 1.1.1 and > CRS is used when connection to 1.3 > > Thanks. I see that's in the docs. But what is the difference between these two and ? I'm new to this part of GDAL. Tha

Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL WMS questions...

2013-01-30 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Carl, Travis seems to have the right idea. The code is at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/frmts/wms/minidriver_wms.cpp#L74 The comment is: SRS is WMS version 1.1 and earlier, if SRS is not set use default unless CRS is set CRS is WMS version 1.3, if CRS is not set use defau

Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL WMS questions...

2013-01-30 Thread Travis Kirstine
My guess is that SRS is used when connecting to a WMS Version <= 1.1.1 and CRS is used when connection to 1.3 Regards On 30 January 2013 15:03, Carl Godkin wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm working with GDAL_WMS in 1.9.2 and have two questions. > > 1. Coordinate system > > The documentation on http://gda

[gdal-dev] GDAL WMS questions...

2013-01-30 Thread Carl Godkin
Hi, I'm working with GDAL_WMS in 1.9.2 and have two questions. 1. Coordinate system The documentation on http://gdal.org/frmt_wms.html lists both / inside the element as well as inside the root element, . What's the difference? Both are defined simply as "Image projection." Is there further