Hi, I would love to meet a person or group who could contigure all these - GeoServer - deegree - MapServer and - TinyOWS to deliver the same datasets through WFS, and then show with some Open Source desktop client, that it is possible to build queries with both attribute and spatial filters and request features from all these services so that the returning data get correctly parsed and that finally there would be four identical map layers with identical attributes on the screen. I have found that I am not talented enough for that and I'll give in.
As a first step I suggest that GeoServer, deegree, MapServer and TinyOWS developer teams would try to agree on some test datasets and try to keep them available from their demo servers so that the WFS server and client developers could use them for evaluating interoperability. Datasets do not need to be big so it should not be especially hard or expensive thing to do. Actually there are already at least these online, but all with different datasets: http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswfs_gmap?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0& REQUEST=GetCapabilities http://demo.deegree.org/deegree-wfs/services?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&R EQUEST=GetCapabilities http://sigma.openplans.org:8080/geoserver/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0& REQUEST=GetCapabilities Or perhaps the competition should be aimed for the desktop GIS teams? Usually there is no problem in getting data out from the WFS services with wget or browser, but the real clients tend to work against only (or at most) one WFS server model. Anyway, the same data available from different WFS servers would be extremely important even then. -Jukka Rahkonen- _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users