[Xastir-dev] Thought for the day: Consider it a feature request...

[Gerry Creager n5jxs]

Oh, they're real enough.  I'm already exporting Texas stuff for the WMS, 
and I should have WFS shortly.  The softwware I'm running will support 
it; I have to configure the 'map file' to support WFS.

There are several WMS servers out there.  ESRI now supports WMS as 
client on ArcView, so does Mapinfo.  Others on the way.

Look at the standard output from http://mesonet.tamu.edu/svr-wx.html and 
you'll find a page that will always givve you the State and County 
outlines, the NWS major roads file, radar and Warning polygons.

Now: For WMS it's a pretty picture, but think of that as one way to 
deliver radar to a specific area, where, in defining the .geo file, you 
use as the URL, the specific request format to get the area 
correspondinig to the .geo's corner registration points.  Did I mention 
having the image datum-transformed if necessary via spec, or reprojected?

I'm just thinking it'd be a neat way to get some of these options from 
the Mesonet site (radar? Satellite (coming soon)? streamlines?).

I've got some of the radar stuff going to openioos.org already on a 
regular basis.

gerry

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Gerry Creager n5jxs wrote:
> 
> 
>>OK, so we can already get radar images.  It's now time to look at the
>>Open Geospatial Consortium's Open Web Services specifications and
>>implement WMS, similar to the Tigermap and Topo snags, and WFS allowsing
>>retrieval of, say, shapefiles.
>>
>>Thoughts?
> 
> 
> None yet.  Don't know anything about them.  This looks like a
> reasonable place to start reading though:
> 
>     http://www.opengeospatial.org/specs/?page=baseline
> 
> What do you know about them, and why should we look at them?  Are
> they real at this point, or still in the conceptual stage?
> 
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