[Qgis-user] BBox Filter for WFS

[Peter Borissow]

Sorry for being impatient but I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on this issue.
I have a WFS that's serving out over a billion features (several million records per layer). When I add a layer from the WFS into QGIS, it calls DescribeFeature and then GetFeature without a BBOX filter. QGIS then waits for ALL of the data to come back (which can take a while). 
In the past, there was an option only fetch features that intersect the current map extent. Without this option, it is extremely difficult to do anything with the WFS using QGIS. 

IMHO, this is a pretty significant bug but hopefully one that should be really easy to fix. Afterall, the code was there at some point...


Related (unanswered) questions on stack exchange:

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/53387/quantumgis-1-8-how-to-define-bounding-box-within-add-wfs-layer-dialog
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/59656/is-there-free-desktop-wfs-client-with-bbox-support

Thanks,Peter



      From: Peter Borissow <peter.borissow at yahoo.com>
 To: "qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> 
 Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 2:03 PM
 Subject: BBox Filter for WFS
   
Hello-    I noticed that the WFS client in QGIS 2.8 and 2.6 do not seem to pass a bbox filter when requesting features. 

It seems that in the past, QGIS had an option to only fetch features that intersect the current map extent:

http://hub.qgis.org/issues/1421

Based on this thread, it looks like this feature was disabled in 1.8:
http://osdir.com/ml/qgis-user-gis/2011-10/msg00308.html

Is this feature still missing or is there a way to enable this feature in the latest release?

Thanks,Peter




  
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