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Duncan Waldron
Nov 28, 2016, 11:20:15 AM11/28/16
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Just discovered Lunaserv yesterday, while looking for an image of crater Brisbane. Downloaded the lunaserv-3.20160316 (1).tar.bz2 file twice, but can't open the .tar file; just get this error message:
I note that the .bz2 file, once opened in WinZIP, shows the .tar filesize and compression ration with a ?, not a valid value.
Reading another post in this group, there was a comment about the software not running on Windows--is that right? If so, what is it supposed to run on?
I did find what I wanted with the online demo, but would love to be able to use this offline :)
Thanks for any help.
Extracting lunaserv-3.20160316 (1).tar
Irrecoverable Error: Invalid compressed data stream (cannot decompress).
Irrecoverable Error: Invalid compressed data stream (cannot decompress).
I note that the .bz2 file, once opened in WinZIP, shows the .tar filesize and compression ration with a ?, not a valid value.
Reading another post in this group, there was a comment about the software not running on Windows--is that right? If so, what is it supposed to run on?
I did find what I wanted with the online demo, but would love to be able to use this offline :)
Thanks for any help.
Nick Estes
Nov 28, 2016, 11:27:59 AM11/28/16
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Duncan,
The distribution package is a bzipped tar archive, so what you saw is
normal. You are correct though that Lunaserv does not currently run in
Windows. Lunaserv is currently tested on Linux and Macos; although, in
theory, any posix-like system ought to be capable.
Lunaserv WMS, being a Web Map Service is meant to be hosted on a server
and then used either via web clients or other GIS software, so it's not
really geared towards offline use. Your best bets for accessing the
data are either through the online interface you already found, or using
QGIS or JMars. Both QGIS and JMars are capable of connecting to our WMS
server and accessing all of the maps there, and the best thing about WMS
is you're not limited to just our WMS server. By using software like
QGIS, you can combine maps on our server with maps you find on other WMS
servers as well as maps you've downloaded on your local system.
I hope that helps clarify things.
--Nick
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The distribution package is a bzipped tar archive, so what you saw is
normal. You are correct though that Lunaserv does not currently run in
Windows. Lunaserv is currently tested on Linux and Macos; although, in
theory, any posix-like system ought to be capable.
Lunaserv WMS, being a Web Map Service is meant to be hosted on a server
and then used either via web clients or other GIS software, so it's not
really geared towards offline use. Your best bets for accessing the
data are either through the online interface you already found, or using
QGIS or JMars. Both QGIS and JMars are capable of connecting to our WMS
server and accessing all of the maps there, and the best thing about WMS
is you're not limited to just our WMS server. By using software like
QGIS, you can combine maps on our server with maps you find on other WMS
servers as well as maps you've downloaded on your local system.
I hope that helps clarify things.
--Nick
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