[OSGeo-Standards] Initial OWS Context

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lorenzo Becchi [mailto:lorenzo at ominiverdi.com] 
> Sent: 02 November, 2007 8:27 AM
> To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> Cc: standards at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Initial OWS Context
> 
> thanks Tom.
> I've updated my test application for OpenLayers:
> http://www.ominiverdi.org/openlayers/context/examples/context-owc.html
> 
> As the menu suggests, you should first "load OWS Context (OWC)".
> Then  "OWC -> OpenLayers (OLON)" to transform the Context 
> into an OLON object for OpenLayers and finally you can "apply 
> OLON to map" to see the result in the map.
> 

Nice!

> You can edit any stage of the process directly in the form 
> field so you can try to paste whatever OWS Context you have in mind.
> 
> actually I'm supporting only WMS layers, but WFS layers 
> should be supported soon and all other layers OpenLayers 
> supports should come as far as we add the Extension to OWS Context.
> 

OK

> ciao
> Lorenzo
> 
> ps: I prefer image/jpeg for the BMNG, try changing it by hand 
> in the form field. ;-)
> 

How are you deriving this?  Is your parser getting the first (or last)
ows:OutputFormat in the doc?  In WMS context, we have @current="1|0".
But now we inherit this construct from OWS Common 1.0.0 (maybe this
should be a change request to the OWS Common spec).

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> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I've posted an initial 0.2.1 OWSContext doc at:
> >
> > http://devgeo.cciw.ca/ms_tmp/owsContext-test.xml
> >
> > The resulting map is a simple global map of one WMS and one WFS.  I
> > would like to make a more elaborate document, to expose various
> > functionality (styling, scale deps, etc.), but finding an AOI and
> > suitable data (WMS and WFS, GML, etc.) is a bit tricky.
> >
> > Having said this, if anyone has any layers, or context docs 
> to help this
> > example, that would be great.
> >
> > I believe our initial exercise (assuming clients can ingest 
> the above
> > example successfully) is to define a OSGeo web mapping-ish 
> extension to
> > support non-OGC bindings.  So the first thing to define is 
> a namespace
> > uri and prefix.  I'll throw in the first attempt:
> >
> > prefix = osgwm
> > uri    = http://www.osgeo.org/webmapping/0.1
> >
> > ..Tom
> >
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