The last thing that happened with ows context was a call from me for  
people to test version 0.3.0 (the version that came out of OWS5 work).  
That's when we put the KML stuff in and worked on the schema. I think  
it's solid and just needs someone to do the administrative work to  
move it forward. I'm happy to work on this and get it ready for a vote  
at the Athens TC in the mass market WG. Sound good?
---
Raj


On Feb 19, at 2:10 PM, Chris Holmes wrote:

> I think I like that idea, and I think it's not too hard to expand  
> OWS context if it doesn't support the max features.
>
> In general I'd like to start using context documents a lot more,  
> they're pretty central to my thoughts on bringing more user  
> collaboration in to GeoServer, 
> http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/User+Collaboration
>
> I had mostly just thought of clients GETing and POSTing context  
> documents, but perhaps it could be useful in some cases for  
> GeoServer to generate them.
>
> Raj, has there been any progress on getting it standardized?  I feel  
> like it was pretty close last time.  It could also be good to have a  
> json representation of it.
>
> Chris
>
> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>> The OWS context stuff (I don't think it is an official spec yet)  
>> seems like it fits. I think it hits all the requirements... except  
>> for feature count. I am not sure if there is some notion of  
>> extensible parameters.
>> The schema is here:
>> http://www.ogcnetwork.net/schemas/owc/
>> It does have the benefit of being a "standard", and I think there  
>> is already some client support around for it around: openlayers,  
>> udig, gvsig?, etc...
>> Worth checking out perhaps.
>> -Justin
>> Andrea Aime wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> there is a user on the ml asking about how he could get
>>> the extents of the features rendered by a GetMap with a filter.
>>> The answer is that this is not trivial, because the filter
>>> would have to be matched with the eventual filter embedded
>>> in the SLD, with the scale related rules, and so on.
>>> Long story short, only the WMS knows what was actually rendered.
>>>
>>> I was wondering about a WMS output format that instead of
>>> depicting a map, describes it. An xml document containing
>>> the layer names, the feature count and bounds for each layer,
>>> maybe a link to the SLD that was used for a specific layer,
>>> the extra filter applied, the current scale.
>>>
>>> Could be useful for this common use case (which will stay
>>> common until WFS can really be used in anger to draw many
>>> features in a browser), and also could be useful for debugging
>>> (as the client and the server don't usually compute the
>>> same scale, or to realize you are not using the style you
>>> thought you were using, or to see a filter is not doing
>>> what you intended it to do).
>>>
>>> Opinions?
>>> Cheers
>>> Andrea
>>>
>
> -- 
> Chris Holmes
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> Expert service straight from the developers.


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