[OpenLayers-Users] How to use WCS with OpenLayers

[Jon Britton]

I'm not aware of any desktop clients with WCS support. There really isn't
much decent WCS support anywhere really!

Displaying WCS data on the web is (was) a big part of my own research so I
feel your pain :-)

Jon

On 15 August 2012 10:39, Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your helpful reply.
>
> I have been serving a DEM through wms....but was trying to try it with
> wcs...basically just as a learning excercise really.
>
> The DEM works as the value = height..and so getFeatureInfo displays the
> attribute....but I was curious. If the wcs protocol is not available for
> web clients....which desktop clients use it?  I don´t think QGIS has this
> capability.
>
> yours,
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
> *Von:* Jon Britton <jonbritton3 at gmail.com>
>
> *An:* Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com>
> *CC:* "users at openlayers.org" <users at openlayers.org>
> *Gesendet:* 11:34 Mittwoch, 15.August 2012
>
> *Betreff:* Re: [OpenLayers-Users] How to use WCS with OpenLayers
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> You probably won't find any thin (browser) clients for displaying WCS data
> directly. There is such a sing as a Coverage Portrayal Service, which can
> make WCS data available through the WMS interface. However, GeoServer
> doesn't support it yet and as far as I know neither does anything else!
>
> GeoServer makes coverages also available through WMS by default too.
> Couldn't you just display your data this way?  Or do you need to access
> some of the more advanced functionality of WCS?
>
> Jon
>
> On 15 August 2012 10:12, Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks.....that is all I wanted to know....that OpenLayers does not
> support wcs...but are there any api mapping libraries/thin clients or Hard
> clients (apart from ESRI)  available?
>
> As I said....I am running the service through geoserver, but do not have a
> client to display it......and hence the question....are there any?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
> *Von:* Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at opengeo.org>
> *An:* Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com>
> *CC:* "users at openlayers.org" <users at openlayers.org>
> *Gesendet:* 10:38 Mittwoch, 15.August 2012
> *Betreff:* Re: [OpenLayers-Users] How to use WCS with OpenLayers
>
> Not sure if I am getting what you're saying here.
>
> OpenLayers is a web mapping client, but has no support for WCS (currently).
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>  --
> Bart van den Eijnden
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> Expert service straight from the developers.
>
>
>
> On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> ok....OpenLayers is not a client....but as a javascript mapping library
> one is able to program a thin-client for web-mapping purposes. And
> therefore, without splitting hairs, OpenLayers is the engine behind a
> thin-client based on OL...or am I wrong?
>
>   ------------------------------
> *Von:* Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at opengeo.org>
> *An:* Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com>
> *CC:* "users at openlayers.org" <users at openlayers.org>
> *Gesendet:* 9:53 Mittwoch, 15.August 2012
> *Betreff:* Re: [OpenLayers-Users] How to use WCS with OpenLayers
>
> OpenLayers is not a WCS client.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>  --
> Bart van den Eijnden
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> Expert service straight from the developers.
>
>
>
> On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:02 AM, Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been using wms to display and query a geotiff DEM from geoserver.
> The Height Field has been written into the geotiff on creation.
> I did this because at the time I didn´t know about wcs.
>
> If I wanted to serve the geotiff through the WCS protocol, how would I
> display and query it with OpenLayers?  Has anyone doen this before and can
> share some experience?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Robert
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