[Openstreetmap] Client libraries for Landsat data?

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Tuesday 26 Apr 2005 02:14, you wrote:
> * On 25-Apr-2005 at  2:23PM PDT, Nick Whitelegg said:
> > As I've probably mentioned before one of the things that I would like to
> > add to a track editing application is overlays of Landsat data. Does
> > anyone OTOH know of any good client libraries for accessing Landsat data?
>
> You probably want to use WMS to request LandSat-7 layers from
> http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/. UMN's MapServer includes a WMS client.
> http://locative.us/places/earth/map.cgi?layer=vmap0&layer=satellite
> provides a web-based example.
>
> SDE

Now if I could get that Landsat data from that URL into my app that would be 
really cool :-) The Landsat data is easily good enough resolution for me to 
estimate woods etc. Mapserver seems to be for web apps rather than standalone 
desktop apps, but I guess - from a cursory look - all I need is an HTTP 
client library of some sort to send WMS requests. Is there documentation for 
the precise parameters you need to fetch Landsat images?

Thanks,
Nick