Re: [Geoserver-users] Which would be fastest - WMSGetFeatureInfo, or WFS DWithin Spatial filter

2012-02-29 Thread Phil Scadden
Yes, a very substantial one: only understands geometries, GetFeatureInfo knows about symbolizers (or at least tries to) so a query on a point symbolizer that is 32px large is going to be much more likely to work on GetFeatureInfo that GetFeature. To have them work similarly you have to

Re: [Geoserver-users] Which would be fastest - WMSGetFeatureInfo, or WFS DWithin Spatial filter

2012-02-29 Thread Andrea Aime
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Phil Scadden p.scad...@gns.cri.nz wrote: Yes, a very substantial one: only understands geometries, GetFeatureInfo knows about symbolizers (or at least tries to) so a query on a point symbolizer that is 32px large is going to be much more likely to work on

Re: [Geoserver-users] Which would be fastest - WMSGetFeatureInfo, or WFS DWithin Spatial filter

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Holmes
The best solution to this will be to implement UTFGrid output from GeoServer. See OpenLayers example at http://tschaub.net/openlayers/examples/utfgrid.html Will take a decent bit of development effort, as it gets in to core rendering stuff. But will be awesome if we build it right. On Tue, Feb

Re: [Geoserver-users] Which would be fastest - WMSGetFeatureInfo, or WFS DWithin Spatial filter

2012-02-28 Thread Andrea Aime
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Phil Scadden p.scad...@gns.cri.nz wrote: Andrea - is there any material difference between wmsgetfeatureinfo and wfs getfeature with suitable bbox? I would rather use wfs as dont really want html. I am minimizing server calls with delays on how long mouse is