Lakewalker PlugIn no images

[Pherison]

Lakewalker is unable to download lansat images. C&P the requested URL into browser returns a CGI-File saying: "This server no longer provides full WMS services!"

Examples: ​http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi?request=GetMap&layers=global_mosaic_base&styles=IR2&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/png&bbox=-95.000000,40.000000,-94.500000,40.500000&width=2000&height=2000
​http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi?request=GetMap&layers=global_mosaic_base&styles=IR1&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/png&bbox=-95.000000,40.000000,-94.500000,40.500000&width=2000&height=2000

[Pherison]

Response file

[bomm]

When you open ​http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/ in a browser you will see this message:

This server no longer provides full WMS services for any of the datasets. [...] The tiled WMS access, described in the Tiled WMS [...] will stay operational. [...]

That means NASA has disabled the normal "full" WMS service and there is no simple way to switch to a new WMS URL.

From time to time there have been problems with the Landsat WMS server at least since summer 2008. At this time I found the explanation that normal WMS places a high load on the server and the preferred way to access the images was NASA's specification of tiled WMS.
I started implementing this for the WMSPlugin, but never integrated it. See ​http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bomm#JOSM-WMS-Plugin_-_Tiled_WMS and ​http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/tiled.html.

I guess nobody (except maybe NASA World Wind users) used NASA's proposed "tiled WMS", so the load on their servers did not decrease.