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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk