WMS supports a GetFeature capability, to retrieve info from the server about the location clicked on the map, queried against a specified layer, which might work if you are determined not to have a WMS background & WFS overlay.
Note that if you open the WMS & WFS layers in QGIS, & save the project (session), you can just reopen the project to re-make both connections as a single operation. HTH Brent Wood --- On Fri, 5/20/11, SixDegrees <paulcarli...@comcast.net> wrote: From: SixDegrees <paulcarli...@comcast.net> Subject: [mapserver-users] Rasters and WFS To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 7:36 AM I am very new to GIS software. We are developing an application that will use both QGis and/or a web browser as the front end. Basically, we have large image files we will be sending as a background layer, and we want to overlay them with points having various attributes. The user should be able to click on each of the points and read off that point's attributes. This works well if we load our background image through a WMS layer and load the points via a shapefile as a vector layer in QGis; points are displayed atop the image and are clickable, bringing up a table of attributes for the selected point. In QGis, at least, adding the shapefile to the WMS mapfile does not permit clicking on points in the UI. It is not possible for the user to obtain shapefiles locally, so we need a solution that will allow both sets of information to be sent through a web service. Will WFS allow raster images to be embedded? Documentation seems to indicate not, but isn't quite clear. We can insist that the user open both a WMS and WFS layer, but this gets messy; we would really prefer a single data stream solution. A browser-based solution seems feasible with WMS, based on the quick trip I've taken through MapServer tutorials. Our customers, however, are comfortable with QGis and strongly prefer that option as an interface. Any thoughts would be appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Rasters-and-WFS-tp6383431p6383431.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
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