Hi Peter There is WFS support in QGIS with the WFS plugin (plugins -> manage plugins -> WFS plugin). However, be warned that it has not the same level of maturity as the WMS support. Also, the WFS provider loads everything into virtual memory which might be too much for really big datasets.
Regards, Marco -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org im Auftrag von Peter Willis Gesendet: Di 28.04.2009 19:03 An: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Betreff: [Qgis-user] WFS Support in QGIS ?! Hello, I see support for WMS layer import which works reasonably well. I am not seeing WFS feature support, including the attribute data that belongs to the requested feature. WFS support in a GIS is, in some ways, more important than WMS support. This is due to the fact that the GIS can already 'map' things. The point of a GIS is to be able to analyze geographic data based on the assigned attributes given to geographic locales. Being able to use WMS to make pretty pictures is all well and good. The *real* work of GIS has always been in the data analysis. The OGC standards for geographic data interchange (ie: WFS, WMS, SOS, WCS, GML, TML,...etc.) should be the main focus of any aspiring GIS product/application. QGIS programmers can be proud of the fact that they are one of only 4 applications that reasonably support WMS. There are a few non-free applications out there that are supporting WMS very poorly. There are currently *NO applications* that are properly supporting WFS. Although I haven't looked at ESRI products lately. It would be quite a coupe for QGIS to move ahead of the pack by supporting import/export of the majority of the OGC specifications. NOTES: While testing, using a multi-polygon vector with 31478 polygons, each with 3 attributes,I have noticed that **BOTH** Mozilla Thunderbird and M.S Internet Explorer run out of memory while downloading large WFS vector requests in XML format. I downloaded the same vector using 'wget'. The resulting XML file size was a bit larger than 82MB. When developing robust applications for WFS (or any other XML format) it may be wise to anticipate massive files. Best Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user