[mapserver-users] wfs data conversion with ogr2ogr?

Knut Behrends knb at gfz-potsdam.de
Tue Dec 16 04:31:18 EST 2008


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Frank Warmerdam schrieb:
> Knut Behrends wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have received data from a WFS that was returned in this format:
>> (Sample feature member)
>>
>>   <gml:featureMember>
>>     <featureSet_704 fid="featureSet_704-feature_1732">
>>       <gml:boundedBy>
>>         <gml:Box>
>>           <gml:coord>
>>             <gml:X>4436682.0</gml:X>
>>             <gml:Y>5783076.0</gml:Y>
>>           </gml:coord>
>>           <gml:coord>
>>             <gml:X>4441086.0</gml:X>
>>             <gml:Y>5786776.0</gml:Y>
>>           </gml:coord>
>>         </gml:Box>
>>       </gml:boundedBy>
>>       <GEOM_ID>1732</GEOM_ID>
>>       <NAME>Marienborn</NAME>
>>     </featureSet_704>
>>   </gml:featureMember>
> ...
> 
>> After successful conversion, however, only the GEOM_ID and the NAME are
>> exported. The spatial information is ignored lost during the conversion.
>> Maybe it's in the wrong format, but it is obviously present  in the GML
>> fragment above. What can I do to convert the spatial information that is
>> contained in the <X> and <Y> elements?
> 
> Knut,
> 
> The above feature fragment from a WFS lacks a geometry properly.  The
> boundedBy properly is normally ignored by OGR.  Following is a simple
> example of a GML feature with a point geometry attribute.
> 
>   <gml:featureMember>
>     <airports fid="2">
>       <NAME>Bowstring Municipal Airport</NAME>
>       <LAT>     47.5583</LAT>
>       <LON>    -93.8689</LON>
>       <ELEVATION>   1372.0000</ELEVATION>
>       <QUADNAME>Jessie Lake</QUADNAME>
> 
> <ogr:geometryProperty><gml:Point><gml:coordinates>434634,5267578</gml:coordinates></gml:Point></ogr:geometryProperty>
> 
>     </airports>
>   </gml:featureMember>
> 
> If you can influence your WFS, then producing something a bit like this
> might be good.
> 

The (non-UMN-mapserver based) WFS is public, and I am acting as a WFS
client, merely retrieving data. Maybe it's just the HTTP GET request
that was misspelled or incomplete.
This was my request:
http://geoportal.geodaten.sachsen-anhalt.de/geodatenportal/servlet/gtEntryPoint?&REQUEST=GetFeature&VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&TYPENAME=featureSet_704&BBOX=4400161.55779751,5779082.69612775,4502841.70515686,5881251.07072079&MAXFEATURES=100

Are these the correct URL parameters?

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