Good points, Jody.
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Raj

On Aug 14, at 11:36 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

I will also point out that SLD 1.0 has been split into two in order to make this more clear ..

SLD 1.1 really focuses on the WMS intergration
SE 1.1 isolates the information you need about styling and is much more clearly applicable to defining *just* styles

The link for Symbology Encoding is:
- http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/symbol

The symbology encoding document does not really define any new concepts; it is just one document being broken into two ...
Jody

On 15/08/2009, at 4:52 AM, Raj Singh wrote:

SLD is usually thought of in conjunction with WMS because you don't see the effect of the styling until you make a map. But it certainly applies to WFS just as well in a situation like Chris mentions with Openlayers, where the client software is doing the portrayal.

In addition to this:
Styled Layer Descriptor
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sld

you will also want to look at this:
Feature Styling IPR version 0.4.1 found at:
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dp

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Raj


On Aug 14, at 2:39 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:22:51PM -0400, Alexandre Leroux wrote:

Hi,

Thanks Christopher for your answer. A colleague excluded SLD by telling us it only applies to WMS, which, based on your comment, isn't true. The OGC website isn't clear on this (I guess we should read deeper). This
would enable us to generate SLDs with uDig :-)

SLD is a language; at least some non-WMS tools can read SLD, and style
WFS vectors according to it. (OpenLayers can do this; I'm sure that
other client software can as well.) Insofar as such a thing exists,
SLD is the primary standards based way of communicating styling
information regarding a set of data.

Some WMS servers are capable of using SLD as their style descriptions;
I believe both MapServer and GeoServer can do this. However, other
clients can as well.



answers! :-) To my defense for this OSGeo-unrelated question, we do process and serve all the related geodata using OSGeo software! ;-)

Which software?

Since you're asking.. still the same project already mentioned on this list: providing Canadian weather information with web maps and standard web services. Our (fully working) prototypes use MapFish, OpenLayers
GDAL/OGR . (we also use other OSGeo software for other projects)

Hm, I guess my question was unclear; I was curious what software you were
using for WMS/WFS.

GeoServer uses SLD as the primary styling configuration on the server,
for example.


Cheers,

Alex
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