[Qgis-developer] Integration of QGIS mapserver to svn?

[Tim Sutton]

Thanks Andreas! I added your comments to the bottom of the post.

Regards

Tim

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
> wrote:
>>>
>>>  +0 for QGIS Server and +1 for QGIS Mobile.
>>>
>>> While I like "QGIS Server" as a name, there may be different "QGIS
>>> Servers"
>>> in the future? Maybe a QGIS WFS server? Or a QGIS WPS or geoprocessing
>>> server? Or a QGIS printserver?
>>
>> Wouldnt they all be the same server just with different service type
>> requests? Would be nicer than needing to deploy 4 server binaries....
>
> indeed it would be nicer to have just one binary handling different
> services. If this doesn't make the thing bloated and if it is technically
> feasible.
>
>>> I would see "QGIS Server" as a family of upcoming potential servers and
>>> "QGIS WMS server" for the great work that Marco just did. I also still
>>> like
>>> "QGIS Mapserver" or "QGIS Webmap Server" which actually describes what it
>>> is
>>> - serving styled maps for web-connected devices and applications.
>>>
>> I love how we discuss names more than the actual thing Marco made :-)
>> For those who are interested, here is a quick guide to getting
>> started:
>>
>> http://linfiniti.com/2010/08/qgis-mapserver-a-wms-server-for-the-masses/
>> (docs team you are welcome to reappropriate that for the next manual
>> if it is useful to you...)
>
> thanks for this first documentation.
>
> Here are a few notes you  could  add to your blog:
>
> * QGIS Mapserver (or however it will be called) implements WMS 1.3 only (not
> WMS 1.1.1)
>
> * GetFeatureInfo should support: text, html, xml
>
> * GetFeatureInfo honors some of the attribute settings of a QGIS layer:
> hidden attributes are suppressed, column aliases are used if present.
>
> * When doing the GetCapabilities, the answer can be very slow and big,
> because for every layer, QGIS will return all available CRS. You can limit
> this list by using adding the following XML elements to the properties
> section:
> <properties>
> <WMSEpsgList type="QStringList">
> <value>21781</value>
> <value>4326</value>
> </WMSEpsgList>
> </properties>
> QGIS will not remove these settings from the .qgs file after saving it from
> the desktop version, but currently there is no GUI to do the WMS settings.
>
> * By default, QGIS Mapserver will advertise the maximum extent of all
> involved layers. This can be overridden by the following setting, again in
> the <properties> section of a .qgs file; replace with your own min/max
> settings:
> <properties>
> <WMSExtent type="QStringList">
> <value>692000</value>
> <value>241500</value>
> <value>700100</value>
> <value>249000</value>
> </WMSExtent>
> </properties>
>
> * GetLegendGraphics should work, e.g.
> http://yourserver/cgi/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=/home/qgisprojects/myproject.qgs&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetLegendGraphics&FORMAT=image/png&LAYERS=hydrology&WIDTH=400
>
> * QGIS Mapserver can handle multiple project files with one fcgi binary. On
> a first request of a newly started Apache server, the request will be
> slower, because the .qgs file has to be parsed, later requests are fast,
> because there is a cache for more .qgs files. You can use the
> "map=/home/path/to/your/project.qgs" parameter to specify which project you
> want to access
>
> It would be nice if we could expose some of the "hidden" WMS properties in a
> GUI, somewhere in the QGIS project properties. Maybe a Server-Settings tab.
>
> Andreas
>



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