SLD is usually thought of in conjunction with WMS because you don't
see the effect of the styling until you make a map. But it certainly
applies to WFS just as well in a situation like Chris mentions with
Openlayers, where the client software is doing the portrayal.
In addition to this:
Styled Layer Descriptor
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sld
you will also want to look at this:
Feature Styling IPR version 0.4.1 found at:
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dp
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Raj
On Aug 14, at 2:39 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:22:51PM -0400, Alexandre Leroux wrote:
Hi,
Thanks Christopher for your answer. A colleague excluded SLD by
telling
us it only applies to WMS, which, based on your comment, isn't
true. The
OGC website isn't clear on this (I guess we should read deeper). This
would enable us to generate SLDs with uDig :-)
SLD is a language; at least some non-WMS tools can read SLD, and style
WFS vectors according to it. (OpenLayers can do this; I'm sure that
other client software can as well.) Insofar as such a thing exists,
SLD is the primary standards based way of communicating styling
information regarding a set of data.
Some WMS servers are capable of using SLD as their style descriptions;
I believe both MapServer and GeoServer can do this. However, other
clients can as well.
answers! :-) To my defense for this OSGeo-unrelated question, we do
process and serve all the related geodata using OSGeo software! ;-)
Which software?
Since you're asking.. still the same project already mentioned on
this
list: providing Canadian weather information with web maps and
standard
web services. Our (fully working) prototypes use MapFish, OpenLayers
GDAL/OGR . (we also use other OSGeo software for other projects)
Hm, I guess my question was unclear; I was curious what software you
were
using for WMS/WFS.
GeoServer uses SLD as the primary styling configuration on the server,
for example.
Cheers,
Alex
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Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
Section de la réponse aux urgences environnementales /
Environmental Emergency Response Section
alexandre.ler...@ec.gc.ca
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