From f9e88fb40c847e130424a60a7af40980ed030ea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kalle Bladin <kallebladin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:49:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug that caused black screen when unable to load gdal
 dataset.

---
 .../globebrowsing/tile/tileprovidermanager.cpp    | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/globebrowsing/tile/tileprovidermanager.cpp b/modules/globebrowsing/tile/tileprovidermanager.cpp
index 600e531d9c..c395398074 100644
--- a/modules/globebrowsing/tile/tileprovidermanager.cpp
+++ b/modules/globebrowsing/tile/tileprovidermanager.cpp
@@ -133,11 +133,20 @@ namespace openspace {
             std::string type = "LRUCaching"; // if type is unspecified
             texDict.getValue("Type", type);
 
-
+            TileProvider* tileProvider;
             auto tileProviderFactory = FactoryManager::ref().factory<TileProvider>();
-            TileProvider* tileProvider = tileProviderFactory->create(type, texDict);
+            try {
+                tileProvider = tileProviderFactory->create(type, texDict);
+            }
+            catch (const ghoul::RuntimeError& e) {
+                LERROR(e.what());
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            // Something else went wrong and no exception was thrown
             if (tileProvider == nullptr) {
-                LERROR("Unable to create TileProvider '" << name << "' of type '" << type << "'");
+                LERROR("Unable to create TileProvider '" << name << "' of type '"
+                    << type << "'");
                 continue;
             }