On Thursday 03 January 2008, nelson guda wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an odd request regarding WFS capabilities. Is it possible to > have a WFS mapserver request return gml results without the geometry > data? > > I know that this seems odd, but it makes sense for what I am doing. > I am using a WMS overlay to serve tiles for a large dataset to an > overlay on google maps. In order to query specific polygons from > that dataset (a shapefile), I am using a WFS GetFeature request. All > I need is the id and other parameters of the feature, but not the > geometry data (because it is already there from the WMS. Right now I > am just parsing out the info I need from the gml at the server level, > but it would be much faster if I could get the WFS to return only the > feature info minus the geometry data. Is this possible? > > Thanks, and thanks for your previous help. > > nelson
If your data is stored in a postgis db, then it might be simpler to create a php page which, based on GET arguments, could construct a spatial query that only returns attribute data. An example of an implementation of this model can be found here: http://169.237.35.250/~dylan/soilweb_gmap/ The legend on the right panel is updated by calls to this page: http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/soil_web/reflector_api/soils.php?what=mapunit&bbox=-120,37,-119.99,37.01&legend_style=grouped cheers, Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341