<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>WMS supports a GetFeature capability, to retrieve info from the server about the location clicked on the map, queried against a specified layer, which might work if you are determined not to have a WMS background & WFS overlay.<br><br>Note that if you open the WMS & WFS layers in QGIS, & save the project (session), you can just reopen the project to re-make both connections as a single operation.<br><br>HTH<br><br>Brent Wood<br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 5/20/11, SixDegrees <i><paulcarlisle@comcast.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: SixDegrees <paulcarlisle@comcast.net><br>Subject: [mapserver-users] Rasters and WFS<br>To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 7:36 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I am very new to GIS
software. We are developing an application that will use<br>both QGis and/or a web browser as the front end. Basically, we have large<br>image files we will be sending as a background layer, and we want to overlay<br>them with points having various attributes. The user should be able to click<br>on each of the points and read off that point's attributes.<br><br>This works well if we load our background image through a WMS layer and load<br>the points via a shapefile as a vector layer in QGis; points are displayed<br>atop the image and are clickable, bringing up a table of attributes for the<br>selected point.<br><br>In QGis, at least, adding the shapefile to the WMS mapfile does not permit<br>clicking on points in the UI. It is not possible for the user to obtain<br>shapefiles locally, so we need a solution that will allow both sets of<br>information to be sent through a web service.<br><br>Will WFS allow raster images to be embedded? Documentation
seems to indicate<br>not, but isn't quite clear.<br><br>We can insist that the user open both a WMS and WFS layer, but this gets<br>messy; we would really prefer a single data stream solution.<br><br>A browser-based solution seems feasible with WMS, based on the quick trip<br>I've taken through MapServer tutorials. Our customers, however, are<br>comfortable with QGis and strongly prefer that option as an interface.<br><br>Any thoughts would be appreciated.<br><br><br>--<br>View this message in context: <a href="http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Rasters-and-WFS-tp6383431p6383431.html" target="_blank">http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Rasters-and-WFS-tp6383431p6383431.html</a><br>Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mapserver-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org"
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