nztopoonline WMS server doesn't work with qgis

[g_j_m]

This ticket derives from #26, where after fixing that problem, another appeared.

Qgis is unable to view WMS data from

http://www.nztopoonline.linz.govt.nz/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?ServiceName=nztopo_wms&

The problem appears to be with the wms server sending inconsistent srs and bounding box information in response to a GetCapabilities request (the boundingbox values, which should be in lat/long, are in some other coordinate system). However, since mapserver appears to work fine (see one of the comments in #26), there may be a way to work around the problem with nztopo.

The WMS getcapabilities request is:

http://www.nztopoonline.linz.govt.nz/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?ServiceName=nztopo_wms&Service=wms&request=GetCapabilities

A portion from the rely to that request is:

<Layer queryable="1">
<Name>182</Name>
<Title>DEM (15m)</Title>
<SRS>EPSG:4326</SRS>
<LatLonBoundingBox minx="1970006.456038" miny="5290004.86525579" maxx="3010006.19505419" maxy="6790036.81876791"/>
<ScaleHint min="3.74121581576496" max="28.059118618237267"/>
</Layer>

Note the LatLonBoundingBox attribute with min and max values that are clearly not latitude/longitudes.

[g_j_m]

The problem in this ticket is with the response from the nztopo-online server, not qgis. I'm removing the Milestone tag from it as the solution is beyond the control of qgis, but leaving the ticket open to serve as a note of a problem that needs to be resolved somehow.

[g_j_m]

The NZ topo service is no longer available, hence this problem has gone away:)

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Milestone Version 0.9 deleted