Mapviewer 11EA & WMS

Question

Hi!,
I've tested the terramap server us:
String[] layers2 = {"USGS Digital Ortho-Quadrangles"};
String[] styles2 = null;
mvHandle.addWMSMapTheme("wms_theme2","http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ogccapabilities.ashx",layers2,styles2,null);
I know, the WMS url should be the base url for the GetCapabilities request.
But! MapViewer seems to take the url for a map request.
--> http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ogccapabilities.ashx?VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&SRS=EPSG:4326& BBOX=-122,37,-122,37&WIDTH=600&HEIGHT=400&FORMAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xffffff&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&LAYERS=USGS+Digital+Ortho-Quadrangles &EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage
This is not correct while the GetMap request MUST be taken from within the GetMap tag!
<Capability>
<Request>
<GetCapabilities>
<GetMap>
For that case it would be:
<Get>
<!-- The URL here for invoking GetMap using HTTP GET
is only a prefix to which a query string is appended. -->
<OnlineResource xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:type="simple"
xlink:href="http://terraservice.net/ogcmap.ashx" />
</Get>
So I'm wondering about the capability of MapViewer. Does anyone has similar experiences or/and suggestions?
regards, Andreas
Message was edited by:
Andreas.Brodkorb

Answer 1

Hi jpaiva,
Yes, i know that.
I said
mvHandle.addWMSMapTheme("wms_theme2","http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ogccapabilities.ashx",layers2,styles2,null);
where http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ogccapabilities.ashx is the capabilities URL.
The getMap URL is different! from that. Regarding the ogc specification it is the way, that mapviewer should read the GetMap URL from within the GetCapabiltites response! It does not. I know this and use for that way not
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ogccapabilities.ashx but
http://terraservice.net/ogcmap.ashx
I wanted to remark, that this way may be a bit complicated, because many OGC-Services are known over their Capabilities URL. If mapviewer would read the capabilities document and would generate the map request with the URL given with that capabilities document i would be more than happy ;)
regards, Andreas
btw: so i must read the capabilities document...