<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_75139" dir="ltr">Sorry for being impatient but I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on this issue.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_75475"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_75490" dir="ltr">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). </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_77454" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_77452" dir="ltr">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. <br></div><div style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_75335" dir="ltr"><br style="" class=""></div>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...<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_75465"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_77599"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_75140">Related (unanswered) questions on stack exchange:<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74897"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74960" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74963" href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/53387/quantumgis-1-8-how-to-define-bounding-box-within-add-wfs-layer-dialog">http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/53387/quantumgis-1-8-how-to-define-bounding-box-within-add-wfs-layer-dialog</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74878" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74877" href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/59656/is-there-free-desktop-wfs-client-with-bbox-support">http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/59656/is-there-free-desktop-wfs-client-with-bbox-support</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74911"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_75008"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_77613">Thanks,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_77619" dir="ltr">Peter<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_77601" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_75473"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_75009"><br> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74867" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74866" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74865" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74864" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Peter Borissow <peter.borissow@yahoo.com><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74863"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74862" style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74869"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74868" style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 23, 2015 2:03 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74871"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74870" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> BBox Filter for WFS<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74872" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv2905228271"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74874"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427222111846_74873" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123440">Hello-</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123447"> I noticed that the WFS client in QGIS 2.8 and 2.6 do not seem to pass a bbox filter when requesting features. <br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123508" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123532" dir="ltr">It seems that in the past, QGIS had an option to only fetch features that intersect the current map extent:<br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123549" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123530" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123529" target="_blank" href="http://hub.qgis.org/issues/1421">http://hub.qgis.org/issues/1421</a><br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_118078"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123618">Based on this thread, it looks like this feature was disabled in 1.8:</div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123666" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123632" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123631" target="_blank" href="http://osdir.com/ml/qgis-user-gis/2011-10/msg00308.html">http://osdir.com/ml/qgis-user-gis/2011-10/msg00308.html</a><br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123665"><br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123662" dir="ltr">Is this feature still missing or is there a way to enable this feature in the latest release?</div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123663" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123752" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123753" dir="ltr">Thanks,</div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123754" dir="ltr">Peter<br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123701" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv2905228271yui_3_16_0_1_1427027348167_123587"><br></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>