[Xastir] Online/nationalmap.gov map chooser options.

[Tom Henderson]

Brilliant! Thanks for describing this in a way that non-map savvy people 
like me can follow. Works here as well.

Tom Henderson

On 11/18/18 8:19 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
> I noticed none of the options under "Online/nationalmap.gov" worked, so I
> decided to look around at the nationalmap.gov sites to see if I could
> figure anything out.  Based on this site,
> https://basemap.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/USGSTopo/MapServer,
> and clicking the WMS link, I came up with the following, and put it in a
> file named US_Topo.geo, and copied it to
> /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online/nationalmap.gov.  After reindexing the
> maps, presto, I got a map.  What's in the geo file is what is between the
> dashed lines below.
> ----------------------------
> WMSSERVER
> URL
> https://basemap.nationalmap.gov:443/arcgis/services/USGSTopo/MapServer/WmsServer?service=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&SRS=EPSG:4326&FORMAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&TRANSPARENT=FALSE&STYLES=&LAYERS=0
> -----------------------------
> At a high level it appears they have changed to https on port 443, but I
> assume libcurl is handling that without issue.
>
> I'll leave it to the developers to decide if they want to look into this
> any further, but in the meantime I at least have a geo file that works.  :-)
>
> Lee - K5DAT
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