[mapserver-users] What is WMS/WFS

[Jeff McKenna]

I think a nice introduction to those services is the "MapServer OGC Web 
Services Workshop", and if you are on Windows it is included in MS4W as 
a package (https://ms4w.com) so you can run it locally, or you can view 
the workshop on the official MS4W demo server at 
https://ms4w.me/ms-ogc-workshop/  (I recommend clicking the "Slides for 
hands-on session" link there, which is old but still does a great job in 
explaining how WMS/WFS relates to MapServer)

Hello to the West Indies, from Canada!

-jeff



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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
https://gatewaygeomatics.com/



On 2019-04-04 9:55 AM, Jeremy JK wrote:
> You don't know what you don't know.
> What I know:
>  From a tomcat training video
> Web SITE
> Web SERVICE
> Web SOCKET
> Site - formatting
> Service - data
> Socket - idk. Something to do with JavaScript, AJAX and chat rooms
> So a Web mapping/feature service shares maps/features where a wms client 
> like openlayers or leaflet does formatting.
> Database ->WMS/WFS -> OpenLayers = website
> Is my above reasoning correct?
> Is that what a WMS/WFS MapServer is? What am I missing from this big 
> picture model?
> Sorry for noob questions. But I when I explain things to my supervisor I 
> want to get things right.  Thanks!
> (In the words of Einstein: If we knew what it was we were doing, it 
> would not be called research)
> Jeremy Kadir
> blueSpace Caribbean <http://www.bluespacecaribbean.com>
> The University of the West Indies
> (868) 309 9123
>