G-delivery service

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Jacob,

thanks for the feedback.

With respect to rasterization of vector data, I had thought of that as
well, but Mapserver WCS currently does not support that. It is also
questionable if this is intended by the WCS spec. But anyway, I think it
would be a great enhancement for Mapserver, so to not forget about it I
have opened up an enhancement bug:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1601

Best regards,
Bart

> Bart,
>
> Sounds great. These methods of data requests are popular in Australia
> too, and are much preferred over having to wait a week (or more) for
> your data.
>
> I'd be careful with having too many controls in the application, though.
> It appears to have more functionality than it may need for its purpose,
> which may scare people off a bit, if they are not familiar with it.
> Maybe you could use tabs to hide the ones less often needed?
>
> Also, make sure potential buyers understand that the downloaded data may
> not look the same (symbolisation,colours, etc.) when downloaded. We get
> that problem a lot when our draftspeople want to import GIS data. For
> this reason, our draftspeople are often more satisfied with a rendered
> image (ECW), looking like the original topographic GIS map. Maybe you
> want to consider raster as an output format too?
>
> I'm sure this application will be very successful. Looks great, too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacob
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: UMN MapServer Users List
>> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bart van
>> den Eijnden (OSGIS)
>> Sent: 8 January 2006 22:48
>> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] G-delivery service
>>
>> Hi people,
>>
>> I wanted to report back some info about a project I recently did and
>> share some ideas. The project's purpose was building a G-delivery
>> service, much alike the situation which exists for a few
>> years already
>> in Canada (although the project I did is used in an intranet).
>>
>> The project combines Mapserver, GDAL/OGR and Chameleon. It is
>> based on
>> OGC standards, mostly Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web
>> Coverage Service
>> (WCS).
>>
>> The ideas I wrote up are available at:
>>
>> http://www.osgis.nl/G-delivery.pdf
>>
>> Comments or suggestions are very much welcome. If anybody is
>> interested
>> in more details, let me know.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
>>
>> --
>> Bart van den Eijnden
>> OSGIS, Open Source GIS
>> http://www.osgis.nl
>>
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