[OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question: OpenLayers with mapserver?

[David Fawcett]

To add to what Brent said, there is no performance advantage (that I
am aware of) to serving a raster layer from MapServer using the native
MapServer CGI interface over the WMS interface.  It is also pretty
easy to configure MapServer to serve a layer as a WMS.

The advantage that you have is that there are more client libraries
and applications that support the WMS standard than those that support
individual 'map server' specific protocols.  The support for WMS data
sources may also include more options and functionality than for other
protocols.

Also, if you wanted to look at your data layer in a desktop GIS, most
proprietary and OpenSource desktop GIS support WMS data sources.

David.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Saka Royban <sakaroyban at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your answer
> I suppose that all users use web browser and i don't wanna serve data to
> other types of users.
> Am i still can take advantage of standards?
> (Strictly speaking, i have test mapserver (i.e. mapscript) in its ordinary
> way and now i'm confused why i should progress to WMS,WFS,..  )
>
> Best Regards
>
> ________________________________
> From: Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
> To: Saka Royban <sakaroyban at yahoo.com>
> Cc: openlayers-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 8:56:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question: OpenLayers with mapserver?
>
>     An important reason is to give end-users more choice when selecting
> tools.  If the data is published using standards such as WMS or WFS they
> they may be able to choose between tens (or hundreds!) of different
> client-side applications to access the data.  If it is published in a
> proprietary or a not widely used protocol, then the choice may be very
> limited.
>
>   It can be very frustrating to users if the end application is very tightly
> tied to the data and the application does not have one or two features they
> require.  With widely supported open standards, they can use their favorite
> application to use the data in ways the system designer had not imagined.
>
> Best Regards,
> Brent Fraser
>
> On 4/24/2011 12:43 AM, Saka Royban wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for your help , other guys as well
> But, why is it the right way when i don't need any external data like google
> maps, ....? why should i set my mapserver as a WMS or WFS server?
> sorry if my question is so basic.
>
> regards
>
> ________________________________
> From: Diego Guidi <diegoguidi at gmail.com>
> To: Saka Royban <sakaroyban at yahoo.com>
> Cc: openlayers-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Sent: Sat, April 23, 2011 2:53:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question: OpenLayers with mapserver?
>
>> I read some tutorials about OpenLayers but one question:
>> How can Openlayers be useful for me if i don't use WMS,WFS, and like this
>> from OpenGIS standards?
> http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/MapServer-js.html
>> which features OpenLayers offers except supporting standards?
> none as I think, just because using standard is the right way to do things
>
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