[OSGeo-Discuss] Options for sharing geodata symbology along with WFS?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:22:51PM -0400, Alexandre Leroux wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks Christopher for your answer. A colleague excluded SLD by telling  
> us it only applies to WMS, which, based on your comment, isn't true. The  
> OGC website isn't clear on this (I guess we should read deeper). This  
> would enable us to generate SLDs with uDig :-)

SLD is a language; at least some non-WMS tools can read SLD, and style
WFS vectors according to it. (OpenLayers can do this; I'm sure that 
other client software can as well.) Insofar as such a thing exists,
SLD is the primary standards based way of communicating styling 
information regarding a set of data.

Some WMS servers are capable of using SLD as their style descriptions;
I believe both MapServer and GeoServer can do this. However, other
clients can as well.

>
>
>>> answers! :-) To my defense for this OSGeo-unrelated question, we do   
>>> process and serve all the related geodata using OSGeo software! ;-)
>>
>> Which software?
>
> Since you're asking.. still the same project already mentioned on this  
> list: providing Canadian weather information with web maps and standard  
> web services. Our (fully working) prototypes use MapFish, OpenLayers  
> GDAL/OGR­. (we also use other OSGeo software for other projects)

Hm, I guess my question was unclear; I was curious what software you were
using for WMS/WFS.

GeoServer uses SLD as the primary styling configuration on the server,
for example.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
> --
> Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
> Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
> Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
> Section de la réponse aux urgences environnementales /
> Environmental Emergency Response Section
> alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca
>
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Christopher Schmidt
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