[QGIS Commit] r14737 - docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide

[svn_qgis at osgeo.org]

Author: dassau
Date: 2010-11-22 07:21:55 -0800 (Mon, 22 Nov 2010)
New Revision: 14737

Modified:
   docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex
Log:
added some notes about QGIS mapserver

Modified: docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex
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--- docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex	2010-11-22 12:53:24 UTC (rev 14736)
+++ docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex	2010-11-22 15:21:55 UTC (rev 14737)
@@ -432,7 +432,51 @@
 \index{WMS!secured layers!}\index{OGC!Authentication}
 \end{Tip}
 
+
 %
+% WMS-server
+%
+
+\section{WMS Server}\label{sec:ogc-wmsserver}
+\index{WMS!server}
+
+QGIS mapserver is an open source WMS 1.3 implementation which, in addition,
+implements advanced cartographic features for thematic mapping. The QGIS
+mapserver is a FastCGI/CGI (Common Gateway Interface) application written in
+C++ that works together with a webserver (e.g. Apache, Lighttpd). 
+
+
+It uses QGIS as backend for the GIS logic and for map rendering. Furthermore the 
+Qt library is used for graphics and for platform independent 
+C++ programming. In contrast to other WMS software, the QGIS mapserver uses 
+cartographic rules in SLD/SE as a configuration language, both for the server 
+configuration and for the user-defined cartographic rules. 
+
+Moreover, the QGIS mapserver project provides the “Publish to Web” plugin, a 
+plugin for QGIS desktop which exports the current layers and symbology as a 
+web project for QGIS mapserver (containing cartographic visualisation rules 
+expressed in SLD).
+
+As QGIS desktop and QGIS mapserver use the same visualization libraries, the
+maps that are published on the web look the same as in desktop GIS. The 
+Publish to Web plugin currently supports basic symbolization, with more complex 
+cartographic visualisation rules introduced manually. As the configuration is 
+performed with the SLD standard and its documented extensions, there is only 
+one standardised language to learn, which greatly simplifies the complexity 
+of creating maps for the Web.
+
+
+The official homepage of the QGIS mapserver is: \\
+\url{http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/qgis\_wms/}
+
+
+Further information is available at: \\
+\url{http://www.qgis.org/wiki/QGIS\_mapserver\_tutorial} \\
+\url{http://linfiniti.com/2010/08/qgis-mapserver-a-wms-server-for-the-masses/}
+
+
+
+%
 % WFS-client
 %
 \section{WFS and WFS-T Client}\label{sec:ogc-wfs}