<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thanks a lot for your answer<br>I suppose that all users use web browser and i don't wanna serve data to other types of users.<br>Am i still can take advantage of standards?<br>(Strictly speaking, i have test mapserver (i.e. mapscript) in its ordinary way and now i'm confused why i should progress to WMS,WFS,.. )<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>Best Regards<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Brent Fraser <bfraser@geoanalytic.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Saka Royban <sakaroyban@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b>
openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, April 24, 2011 8:56:37 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question: OpenLayers with mapserver?<br></font><br><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off">
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An important reason is to give end-users more choice when
selecting tools. If the data is published using standards such as
WMS or WFS they they may be able to choose between tens (or
hundreds!) of different client-side applications to access the
data. If it is published in a proprietary or a not widely used
protocol, then the choice may be very limited.<br>
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It can be very frustrating to users if the end application is very
tightly tied to the data and the application does not have one or
two features they require. With widely supported open standards,
they can use their favorite application to use the data in ways the
system designer had not imagined.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature">Best Regards,
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On 4/24/2011 12:43 AM, Saka Royban wrote:
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<div>Thanks a lot for your help , other guys as well<br>
But, why is it the right way when i don't need any external
data like google maps, ....? why should i set my mapserver as
a WMS or WFS server?<br>
sorry if my question is so basic.<br>
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regards<br>
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<hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b>
Diego Guidi <a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:diegoguidi@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:diegoguidi@gmail.com"><diegoguidi@gmail.com></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Saka
Royban <a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:sakaroyban@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:sakaroyban@yahoo.com"><sakaroyban@yahoo.com></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b>
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April 23, 2011 2:53:12 PM<br>
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Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question: OpenLayers with
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> I read some tutorials about OpenLayers but one
question:<br>
> How can Openlayers be useful for me if i don't use
WMS,WFS, and like this<br>
> from OpenGIS standards?<br>
<span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/MapServer-js.html">http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/MapServer-js.html</a></span><br>
> which features OpenLayers offers except supporting
standards?<br>
none as I think, just because using standard is the right
way to do things<br>
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