How can I push a proposal for provisioning elevation data via Web Coverage Services when there are no freakin’ clients?

After a couple of hours I seriously only found,

• http://zeus.pin.unifi.it/projects/wcsClientLite/
• on Globalmapper’s todo list
• Cadcorp SIS
• gvSIG
• Vague references to ArcGIS 9x support … vapourware?
• A classic Dimitri Manifold post
• and no hits on the long list of clients at vterrain.org

Suggesting users manually craft the requests is not an option

I guess this kinda gets back to my previous rants on this issue. We’ve got Deegree, Geoserver, Mapserver and quite a few other notable suppliers pushing coverages out … to where exactly??

It seems absurd how many people grab the whole SRTM/Landsat/DEMs in general just because “its easier”. After looking into WCS, perhaps they are right. Chicken meet egg, again.