[OpenLayers-Users] zoomed out view is wms and zoomed in is wfs

[Jesse V. Griffis]

One reason, for us anyway: In modern browsers retrieving the features once 
makes display much quicker than making network requests all the time for 
png/jpg imagery - particularly with many layers / tiles.

Unfortunately "modern browsers" doesn't include IE8......

Jesse

On Thursday, May 17, 2012 09:29:44 AM Phil Scadden wrote:
> Hi Steve, I wonder why you want to make the transition from WMS to WFS?
> My strategy is use WMS for display on map, and use WFS for queries.
> http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Select-WFS-Features-using-intersect-of-p
> olygon-td4467419.html#a4470543 has example of WFS query. This uses a
> wfsProtocol object. The
> fromWMSLayer is just easy way to create this protocol when you are using
> wms for display.
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