exporting layers to OGC interfaces

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi list,

I think there has been talk about this for several years now.

Currently there is no way to keep a LAYER from appearing in the
GetCapabilities output from a OGC service.

I think it was suggested in the past to adapt the DUMP keyword for this.

How about using a METADATA tag called ows_export which would have the
following possible values:

1. all
2. wms
3. wfs
4. wcs
5. sos

or any combination of 2-5. The default value would be all, i.e. the current
behaviour.

The only thing which needs adapting then is checking for the value of
ows_export in the GetCapabilities output code (for all of the OGC services
that Mapserver supports) or not?

Best regards,
Bart

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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
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