Request bounding box of WFS GetFeature

[Berend Veldkamp]

Hi Bart,

Interesting thread, thanks.

I did some more testing, and it *looks like* the FeatureCollection >
boundedBy tag represents the bounding box, regardless of wether
MaxFeatures is set, although this isn't specifically mentioned in the
WFS specifications. Ofcourse this is not exactly what I want, but it
could reduce download size drastically in some cases, if MaxFeatures is
set to 1.
Can anyone confirm this behaviour?

Berend




bartvde at xs4all.nl wrote:

> Hi Berend,
>
> using OGC interfaces there is currently no way to do this.
>
> There was also a thread on the wfs-dev list about this last year, the idea
> may end up in a new WFS specification. See:
>
> http://mail.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/wfs-dev/2004-June/000172.html
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>When doing a GetFeature request, I get all features (or only some, if I
>>use a filter), including GML markup. This can sometimes lead to
>>extensive downloads.
>>Now there are times when I'm only interested in the bounding box of the
>>resulting features, for instance when I want to zoom to filtered features.
>>Is it possible to have only the bounding box returned and leave out the
>>GML?
>>
>>Thanks, Berend
>>

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