[OpenLayers-Users] Problems with large datasets, WFS, alternatives.

[Diego Guidi]

so you need a getfeatureinfo call from wms, that returns exactly a
feature' attributes.

On 3/10/11, Phil Scadden <p.scadden at gns.cri.nz> wrote:
>
>> a way taht I suggest you is to use the getfeature tool to select only
>> a subset of your data.
>> http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.10/examples/getfeature-wfs.html
> As an aside, this example is not working - returning java errors. I have
> told openlayers-dev.
>
> However, this is pretty much like I am doing but with selectFeature
> control. It still involves a WFS response. My problem is that the
> geometry in the WFS response is too large - it takes a long time to send
> and along time to process. I want the wfs features minus geometry. And I
> want a way to use WMS instead of WFS to display selected features.
>
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Diego Guidi