Thanks Craig,
But perhaps you can give me a clue as to how to set up a WMS and interface with it (or where some documentation may exist online)? I got the impression the WMS was only driven from XML files? I'm afraid I still haven't got my head around what is a WMS and what is MapServer! ________________________________ From: Craig Miller [mailto:craig.mil...@spatialminds.com] Sent: 15 July 2009 21:20 To: Smart, Gary Subject: RE: [gdal-dev] MapServer interface Would it work for you to setup MapServer as a WMS, then use the GDAL WMS driver? From: gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Smart, Gary Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:25 PM To: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [gdal-dev] MapServer interface Still a newbee to this so forgive any daft questions. In an answer to a previous question of mine, it was hinted (thank you Even) that I could possibly MapServer to return tiles of rasterised maps for display using my display application. From my initial studies, MapServer seems to be aimed at HTML based applications. However, I want it to return tiles of imagery which I can render using my C++ application. Am I right in thinking that this must be done via XML, scripts and files (e.g. I request a tile from the server (not sure how) and it returns a rasterised map file which I could open via GDAL). Really, I was hoping for a more direct API whereby I can generate a server request directly from my C++ code and get the raster tile back similar to the GDALDataSet::RasterIO call? Any clues? Gary
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