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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hey folks,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>NOAA Wants:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>BBOX=-79.6222567785354,37.8816528320313 -77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mapserver Sends:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>BBOX=-79.6222567785354,37.8816528320313,-77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Doesn’t Work (mapserver):</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/OGC_services/ndfdOWSserver.php?&REQUEST=GetFeature&VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&TYPENAME=Ndfd_KmlPoint&BBOX=-79.6222567785354,37.8816528320313,-77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848">http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/OGC_services/ndfdOWSserver.php?&REQUEST=GetFeature&VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&TYPENAME=Ndfd_KmlPoint&BBOX=-79.6222567785354,37.8816528320313,-77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848</a></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Works (NOAA):</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/OGC_services/ndfdOWSserver.php?&REQUEST=GetFeature&VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&TYPENAME=Ndfd_KmlPoint&BBOX=-79.6222567785354,37.8816528320313,-77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848">http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/OGC_services/ndfdOWSserver.php?&REQUEST=GetFeature&VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&TYPENAME=Ndfd_KmlPoint&BBOX=-79.6222567785354,37.8816528320313%20-77.4274563562303,39.3436317443848</a></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Maybe I am missing some crucial configuration param?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks in advance,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Robert W. Burgholzer</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Surface Water Modeler</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Office of Water Supply and Planning</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Department</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of
Environmental Quality</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:rwburgholzer@deq.virginia.gov">rwburgholzer@deq.virginia.gov</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>804-698-4405</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Open Source Modeling Tools:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/</a></span></font></p>
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