Great

that worked a treat! many thanks to all of you.

Cheers
Patrick

Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> Patrick Weber <p.weber <at> ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I have setup a local WMS server on my machine which I want to make use 
>> of in JOSM for some local aerial imagery I have. I installed the JOSM 
>> WMS plugin, and it allows me to use the predefined WMS Servers (for 
>> example the Landsat one works).
>> I do have trouble though with setting up my local wms server. I tried 
>> setting up the connection string in the plugin preferences, but I never 
>> get imagery in JOSM. I can add the custom layer to Josm, but no imagery 
>> ever shows up. I dont get any error messages though.
>>
>> The connection string I am using at the moment is: 
>>
>>     
> http://localhost/echternach/wms.asp?request=GetMap&layers=VE&styles=&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/
>
> It is close to a complete WMS request.  Try adding parameters
> &service=WMS&version=1.1.0
> and complete image format to something reasonable, like
> &format=image/png or &format=image/jpeg
>
> After those changes it might work.  For comparison, here is a working 
> connection
> string for UMN MapServer running at localhost and installed from the most 
> common
> Windows package MS4W.  Here &map is MapServer specific vendor parameter that 
> is
> not used by other WMS servers. 
>
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=GetMap&layers=local_image&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/jpeg&map=c:/ms4w/apps/maps/osm.map
>
>
>
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