[Mapserver-users] querying WMS layer

Gregor Mosheh stigmata at blackangel.net
Thu Jun 3 04:34:09 EDT 2004


> You can query your "server-side" layer in most other WMS clients, such as
> Chameleon, but these don't go through Mapserver WMS client for
> GetFeatureInfo but call the WMS server directly.
> A technical story, but I hope you get the drift.

Lemme rephrase to make sure I really get it: "MapServer as a WMS server
can be queried for feature info. However, there's a shortcoming in
MapServer's WMS-client so that WMS layers cannot be queried in this
fashion." Is that right?

If so, is there some other prescribed way of displaying a WMS layer, and
being able to query that layer?

Is this cascading thing an issue for MapServer's WFS implementations
as well? Could a MapServer WFS-client layer be queried?




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