[mapserver-users] Problem with Mapserver WFS-client generatedsyntax

[Burgholzer,Robert]

Thought I would post an update on this issue.  It seems that there was
some strange error in the particular FEATURENAME that I was requesting,
since OGC compliant requests for a different feature managed to return
the desired data sets.

NOAA once again proved to be very responsive to inquiries, contrary to
my fear that a web-form email feedback would go into the vast
nothingness of deep space.  I am waiting to hear back regarding a
subsequent issue wherein the number of points returned appears to be
constrained, and also scaled based on rules that are not yet apparent to
me.

Stay tuned... :) 

Robert W. Burgholzer
Surface Water Modeler
Office of Water Supply and Planning
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov
804-698-4405
Open Source Modeling Tools:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/

-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
Burgholzer,Robert
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:03 PM
To: Yewondwossen Assefa
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Problem with Mapserver WFS-client
generatedsyntax

Thanks for letting me know that it is their problem, not mapserver.

Hopefully, they can fix it...

Robert W. Burgholzer
Surface Water Modeler
Office of Water Supply and Planning
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov
804-698-4405
Open Source Modeling Tools:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/

-----Original Message-----
From: Yewondwossen Assefa [mailto:yassefa at dmsolutions.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:35 PM
To: Burgholzer,Robert
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Problem with Mapserver WFS-client
generated syntax

Robert,

  The wfs specs indicates that values for the BBOX parameter should be 
separated by commas which is what Mapserver is doing. There is no other 
setting in mapserver that would allow you to change the format of BBOX 
easily. I think the best would be for the server to respect the syntax 
described in the specs.

Best Regards,

Burgholzer,Robert wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I am trying to hit NOAA's experimental point based weather forecast 
> product WFS server.  I am using mapserver as a client, and I seem to
be 
> getting a strange incompatibility, that appears to be in a subtle 
> feature of the WFS query that Mapserver is putting together.  The 
> difference between the query that NOAA wants, and the one that
mapserver 
> produces is in the BBOX parameter.  NOAA wants a space between the two

> corners, and mapserver puts a comma, a la:
> 
>  
> 
> NOAA Wants:
> 
> BBOX=-79.6222567785354,37.8816528320313
-77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848
> 
>  
> 
> Mapserver Sends:
> 
>
BBOX=-79.6222567785354,37.8816528320313,-77.4274563562303,39.34363174438
48
> 
>  
> 
> Doesn't Work (mapserver):
> 
>
http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/OGC_services/ndfdOWSserver.php?&REQ
UEST=GetFeature&VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&TYPENAME=Ndfd_KmlPoint&BBOX=-7
9.6222567785354,37.8816528320313,-77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848 
>
<http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/OGC_services/ndfdOWSserver.php?&RE
QUEST=GetFeature&VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&TYPENAME=Ndfd_KmlPoint&BBOX=-
79.6222567785354,37.8816528320313,-77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848>
> 
>  
> 
> Works (NOAA):
> 
>
http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/OGC_services/ndfdOWSserver.php?&REQ
UEST=GetFeature&VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&TYPENAME=Ndfd_KmlPoint&BBOX=-7
9.6222567785354,37.8816528320313%20-77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848 
>
<http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/OGC_services/ndfdOWSserver.php?&RE
QUEST=GetFeature&VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&TYPENAME=Ndfd_KmlPoint&BBOX=-
79.6222567785354,37.8816528320313,-77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848>
> 
>  
> 
> Maybe I am missing some crucial configuration param?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Robert W. Burgholzer
> 
> Surface Water Modeler
> 
> Office of Water Supply and Planning
> 
> Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
> 
> rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov <mailto:rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov>
> 
> 804-698-4405
> 
> Open Source Modeling Tools:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/
> 
>  
> 
> 
>
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