help w/ WFS request

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi John,

1) what Mapserver version are you using?
2) if you do a DescribeLayer request, what is the name of the geometry 
property (is it really the_geom like in your request)?

Mapserver's response indicates an empty feature collection, so the 
boundedBy is gml:null.

Best regards,
Bart

John Cartwright wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to get mapserver setup as a simple WFS server. It responds 
> to a GetCapabilities request OK:
> but when I send the following GetFeatures request:
>
> <wfs:GetFeature service="WFS" version="1.0.0"
>  outputFormat="GML2"
>  xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs"
>  xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc"
>  xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
>  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/wfs
>                      http://schemas.opengis.net/wfs/1.0.0/WFS-basic.xsd">
>  <wfs:Query typeName="soundings">
>    <ogc:Filter>
>      <ogc:BBOX>
>        <ogc:PropertyName>the_geom</ogc:PropertyName>
>        <gml:Box srsName="http://www.opengis.net/gml/srs/epsg.xml#4269">
>           <gml:coordinates>-95,26.5 -94.75,26.75</gml:coordinates>
>        </gml:Box>
>      </ogc:BBOX>
>   </ogc:Filter>
>  </wfs:Query>
> </wfs:GetFeature>
>
> I get this response, and don't know what's wrong:
>
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
> <wfs:FeatureCollection
>   xmlns:ms="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver"
>   xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs"
>   xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
>   xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc"
>   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/wfs 
> http://schemas.opengeospatial.net/wfs/1.0.0/WFS-basic.xsd
>                       http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver 
> http://lynx.ngdc.noaa.gov:8000/cgi-bin?map=bathydb&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&TYPENAME=soundings&OUTPUTFORMAT=XMLSCHEMA"> 
>
>   <gml:boundedBy>
>      <gml:null>missing</gml:null>
>   </gml:boundedBy>
> </wfs:FeatureCollection>
>
> It suggests to me that the bounding box coordinates are not being 
> properly read. I would have expected something like in the response:
>
> <gml:boundedBy> <gml:Box srsName="EPSG:4326">
> <gml:coordinates> -95, 26.5 -94.75, 26.75</gml:coordinates>
> </gml:Box>
> </gml:boundedBy>
>
> followed by a series of featureMember elements.
>
> Can someone tell what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- john
>
>


-- 
Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
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