Arizona Color WMS always gives error

[sanewcomb]

Hi Scott,

I guess this is probably specific to my setup but thought I'd post it here in case it happens to someone else in the future. I cannot get any tiles from the Arizona WMS server and always get the message below. I can't find any reference in these archives that the Arizona server is closed (their webpage still comes up with WMS instructions).

I've tried just about everything I can think of. Set internet connections to 1. Copy and pasted the WMS code from their site. Did a totally new install (Beta 4.05) with erased Topofusion.ini (should have made everything default, right?) and nada. One thing that caught my eye was Arizona isn't included in the fresh install WMS list.

What am I missing?

Steve

http://home.comcast.net/~steve_newcomb/AZColorTileError.gif

[ScottMorris]

Steve,

Didn't I respond to this in email?  I probably missed it, sorry about that.

The request string did change for the AZ server.  In fact they seem to change it every once in a while, enough that it's no longer part of the Color tileset (AZ aerials come from USGS now).  But it works for me with the following info:

server: imagery.azmap.org

request: ArcGIS/services/AZ_2005_Imagery/MapServer/WMSServer?REQUEST=GetMap&VERSION=1.1.1&FORMAT=image/jpeg&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&LAYERS=0,1,2,3,4&STYLES=,,,,&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_xml

Be sure to copy the request all as one line.  Let me know if it doesn't work for you.

[sanewcomb]

Scott,

Sorry for the very late reply. Your answer was the solution and if I had been reading
everything in front of me I would have been able to do it myself. It involved removing the
&BBox.... segment from the WMS request string on the azmap.org site.

This route to the imagery.azmap.org server (or maybe only the 2007 data set) is fairly slow
and often turns off TF's downloading function, but I find the 2007 data better than the
2005, particularly the 0.003 tile set in some of the areas I'm interested in. So far the request
string has stayed the same since the last reply. Their website states they had plans to do
a 2009 run, but so far that set hasn't shown up on their server. Hopefully it's only delayed
a bit due to current budget constraints.

Thanks for your help.

Steve