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R package – retrieving & using MODIS data from NASA's ORNL DAAC archive
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GetSubset(): Downloading from the web service is currently not working. #41

Open stineb opened 7 years ago

stineb commented 7 years ago

Functions GetSubset() and BatchDownload() return error ("Downloading from the web service is currently not working. Please try again later."). This is most likely not due to an overload but rather to recent changes with ORNL DAAC, possibly related to login credentials? See https://twitter.com/ORNLDAAC/status/846319758270238721 and http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/233568/r-modistools-downloading-from-web-service-currently-not-working/233921#233921.

geponce commented 7 years ago

That message is actually very generic. It should provide some of the details about it in some cases, I guess. In my case the xml is returning a "soap:Fault" element that GetSubset is not showing it.

<soap:Fault>
   <faultcode>soap:Client.modisperioderror</faultcode>
   <faultstring>Subset time period A2005001 to A2006001 exceeds maximum subset tiles support of 10</faultstring>
  </soap:Fault>

That message is never shown and I had to debug the GetSubset routine to learn that I was passing a long timeseries?
Anyway, I don't think 1 year is long for 16-days product