Hi
Is there anywhere a brief explanation of the deferent types of map services
such as WFS, WMS and WCS.
What each service does differently then the other and how to identify which
one would be the correct service to use for a specific application.
I have read the various how to's on the wiki but
On Tue, May 13, Sarel Coetzer wrote:
Is there anywhere a brief explanation of the deferent types of map services
such as WFS, WMS and WCS.
WIYF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Map_Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Feature_Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service
Hi Sarel,
I can probably explain it in a few sentences.
WMS is a web mapping service, so it is meant to render an image of data,
be it vector or raster data. It only gives you back an image
representation of your data.
WFS is a web feature service, it is meant to deliver the features (in
Hi Sarel,
please cc the list since it might be useful for other people searching
the archives one day.
1) AFAIK WMS server does not generate any images in the temp dir when
using Mapserver in CGI mode. The WMS client in Mapserver does (so if you
use remote WMS layers). I don't think WFS and
