On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:34:34PM +1000, nicholas.g.lawre...@transportandmainroads.qld.gov.au wrote: > > Hello osgeo people, > > I am a member of a professional institution that is considering setting up > a web feature service that publishes point locations, of members and > offices, in a global context. > > The idea being to, instead of producing a map directly, to instead just > publish the WFS, which makes the information available for mash-ups. > > The published data is likely to have a very small volume and only > be updated a few times per annum. > > How do you go about setting up a WFS?
To be honest, in this case, I wouldn't. Instead, I would publish a file describing the data in a well understood data format. KML is widely used and understood by many different clients. Publishing the data in a single file, well understood by many clients -- like Google Maps, Google Earth, etc. -- is likely to be more effective at having the data reused than publishing it in a "WFS". If the data was large -- many thousands of results -- then "WFS" might be a better answer. (Though KML NetworkLink might still be better.) With a small collection of data, however, a static file -- KML, GeoJSON, or some other widely used format (GML doesn't count, Ron), would probably be good. (The primary reason I would select GeoJSON over KML is if the attributes -- more than name and description -- are important, though recent KML work has sort of improved that situation as well.) Best Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss