[OpenLayers-Users] Querying Features on a WMS Layer

[bwoodall]

Howdy Bill,

There are several ways, one can be found ( though maybe a bit outdated )
at http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/GetFeatureInfo  and another one
( a working example ) is at http://wardrobe.dhs.org/jrf/ using Hover

I have several others, but they are currently offline at the moment.

Hope that helps,

....Bill,

On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 19:18 -0700, Bill Thoen wrote:
> Has anyone here tried to hack a way into querying features from a WMS 
> layer? I'm thinking it might be doable in a way similar to how MapSurfer 
> does it. Basically, you capture a point click or box corners and send 
> that back to a MapServer query template and then capture the results 
> either into a querymap or a table template. Anyway, if anyone has done 
> this and has an example they'd be willing to share, I'd like to see how 
> it's done. If this technique actually works, I think it might be a good 
> way to get the benefits of vector features without having to use feature 
> objects.
> 
> 
> - Bill Thoen
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