I need to change SLD on the fly to create some thematic maps. I would also appreciate if compatibility with OGC's WFS was mantained. Have you guys done this before? I could use some suggestions... :P
I have done some searching and came up with a couple of solutions. 1- GeoServer GeoExt Styler Plugin. I don't know if it is a good solution, because as far as I know, it changes the style of the layer for all the users. I would need to replicate styles on the server for each user and each layer. And also this requires the server to be Geoserver, and breaks OGC compatibility. 2- WMS 1.3 and SLD MapServer implements WMS 1.3 and accepts a SLD description in the request. GeoServer doesn't. Nothing against MapServer, but my current development environment is set with GeoServer.. 3- WFS and treat SLD exhibition on the client This is a double edged solution. The good thing about WFS is that I have many more possibilities of control over the map. I can use SelectFeature control, instead of hacking some code to implement it over WMS. But it also gives me many other options I don't need such as the vector data. I only need the images. So right now I am between solutions 2 and 3. I don't want to give up on GeoServer, but I am also having problems dealing with the huge amount of vector data that WFS is retrieving. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
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