<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>Just to say thanks to all who helped me.<br><br>Best wishes<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> David Fawcett <david.fawcett@gmail.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> Mon, April 25, 2011 10:21:31 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question: OpenLayers with mapserver?<br></font><br>
To add to what Brent said, there is no performance advantage (that I<br>am aware of) to serving a raster layer from MapServer using the native<br>MapServer CGI interface over the WMS interface. It is also pretty<br>easy to configure MapServer to serve a layer as a WMS.<br><br>The advantage that you have is that there are more client libraries<br>and applications that support the WMS standard than those that support<br>individual 'map server' specific protocols. The support for WMS data<br>sources may also include more options and functionality than for other<br>protocols.<br><br>Also, if you wanted to look at your data layer in a desktop GIS, most<br>proprietary and OpenSource desktop GIS support WMS data sources.<br><br>David.<br><br>On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Saka Royban <<a ymailto="mailto:sakaroyban@yahoo.com" href="mailto:sakaroyban@yahoo.com">sakaroyban@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Thanks a lot for your answer<br>> I
suppose that all users use web browser and i don't wanna serve data to<br>> 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<br>> way and now i'm confused why i should progress to WMS,WFS,.. )<br>><br>> Best Regards<br>><br>> ________________________________<br>> From: Brent Fraser <<a ymailto="mailto:bfraser@geoanalytic.com" href="mailto:bfraser@geoanalytic.com">bfraser@geoanalytic.com</a>><br>> To: Saka Royban <<a ymailto="mailto:sakaroyban@yahoo.com" href="mailto:sakaroyban@yahoo.com">sakaroyban@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Cc: <a ymailto="mailto:openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org">openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 8:56:37 PM<br>> Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question: OpenLayers with mapserver?<br>><br>>
An important reason is to give end-users more choice when selecting<br>> tools. If the data is published using standards such as WMS or WFS they<br>> they may be able to choose between tens (or hundreds!) of different<br>> client-side applications to access the data. If it is published in a<br>> proprietary or a not widely used protocol, then the choice may be very<br>> limited.<br>><br>> It can be very frustrating to users if the end application is very tightly<br>> tied to the data and the application does not have one or two features they<br>> require. With widely supported open standards, they can use their favorite<br>> application to use the data in ways the system designer had not imagined.<br>><br>> Best Regards,<br>> Brent Fraser<br>><br>> On 4/24/2011 12:43 AM, Saka Royban wrote:<br>><br>> 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<br>> maps, ....? why should i set my mapserver as a WMS or WFS server?<br>> sorry if my question is so basic.<br>><br>> regards<br>><br>> ________________________________<br>> From: Diego Guidi <<a ymailto="mailto:diegoguidi@gmail.com" href="mailto:diegoguidi@gmail.com">diegoguidi@gmail.com</a>><br>> To: Saka Royban <<a ymailto="mailto:sakaroyban@yahoo.com" href="mailto:sakaroyban@yahoo.com">sakaroyban@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Cc: <a ymailto="mailto:openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org">openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> Sent: Sat, April 23, 2011 2:53:12 PM<br>> Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question: OpenLayers with mapserver?<br>><br>>> 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 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>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Users mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Users@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Users@lists.osgeo.org">Users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><span>> <a target="_blank" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users</a></span><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Users mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Users@lists.osgeo.org"
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