Request bounding box of WFS GetFeature

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Berend,

using OGC interfaces there is currently no way to do this.

There was also a thread on the wfs-dev list about this last year, the idea
may end up in a new WFS specification. See:

http://mail.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/wfs-dev/2004-June/000172.html

Best regards,
Bart

> Hi,
>
> When doing a GetFeature request, I get all features (or only some, if I
> use a filter), including GML markup. This can sometimes lead to
> extensive downloads.
> Now there are times when I'm only interested in the bounding box of the
> resulting features, for instance when I want to zoom to filtered features.
> Is it possible to have only the bounding box returned and leave out the
> GML?
>
> Thanks, Berend
>
>
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