[Qgis-developer] open a WCS service

[Paolo Cavallini]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:02:39 -0500, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
wrote:

> I believe that would be desirable.  Then the GUI dialog could write the
> WCS control file.  Note that the only two things required in the control
> file are the Service URL and the coverage name.  But to offer the user
> a list of coverage names you would need to actually fetch the
capabilities
> document - something I felt was out of scope for GDAL.
> 
> PS. The wcs service file does not actually need to be written to disk if
> you want to avoid problems with temporary files.  But doing so is good
in
> that it is used to cache details about the coverage for future use, and
it
> gives the end user a file where they can tweak some of the odder
> parameters.

Thanks Frank for explaining. Seems reasonably easy to add.
Any taker?
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