I agree with Tom. The idea of joining the 2 services so explicitly in  
the Context encoding is also limiting or misleading in a way, because  
there are scenarios where the "navigation" WMS doesn't need to be  
showing the same data as the "download" WFS.

If the interest is in a general way to signal that two or more  
services only make sense when used together, maybe a better idea is  
to allow nested <ResourceList>s, and give that element some metadata,  
like a title and abstract.

---
Raj


On Sep 6, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: 05 September, 2007 4:41 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
>> '[email protected]'; Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
>> Subject: Associating WMS and WFS in the same layer
>>
>> Tom,
>> Another OWS Context question.
>> In the CGDI Pilot we are working on, there is a requirement
>> to find and then download GML from a WFS.
>>
>> When finding a dataset, a user will generally want to use WMS
>> interface to view datasets because it requires less
>> bandwidth. Then when the Area Of Interest has been selected,
>> the user will download the dataset using WFS.
>>
>> In order to do this, we need to associate a WMS layer with a
>> WFS layer.
>> I think this should be done using something like:
>>
>>    <Layer queryable="0" hidden="0">
>>      <Server service="OGC:WMS" version="1.0.0"
>> title="OGC:WMS" default="1">
>>        <OnlineResource xlink:type="simple"
>> xlink:href="http://localhost:8080/wms"/>
>>      </Server>
>>      <Server service="OGC:WFS" version="1.0.0" title="OGC:WFS">
>>        <OnlineResource xlink:type="simple"
>> xlink:href="http://localhost:8080/wms"/>
>>      </Server>
>>      <Name>basic</Name>
>>      <Title>World Basemap</Title>
>>      <SRS>EPSG:4326</SRS>
>>    </Layer>
>>
>>
>> Note, this means that a WFS layer should be inserted inside a
>> <Layer> tag instead of a <FeatureType> tag.
>> This comment could be extended to showing the same layer as
>> KML, Tiled WMS, ...
>>
>> Tom, what are your thoughts on this?
>>
>
> Isn't this what WMS DescribeLayer is for?  What I would do is a WMS
> DescribeLayer request, which would tell you if a layer if WFS-able or
> not; if it is, then mark as extractable in your client and chain  
> along.
>
> Would this be feasible?
>
> ..Tom
>
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