On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Phil Scadden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andrea - is there any material difference between wmsgetfeatureinfo and > wfs getfeature with suitable bbox? I would rather use wfs as dont really > want html. I am minimizing server calls with delays on how long mouse is > stationary before a request is issued etc.
Yes, a very substantial one: only understands geometries, GetFeatureInfo knows about symbolizers (or at least tries to) so a query on a point symbolizer that is 32px large is going to be much more likely to work on GetFeatureInfo that GetFeature. To have them work similarly you have to image a WMS request where all points are symbolized with a single pixel and all lines are thin. If you are worried that GetFeatureInfo is returning too much information you'll be happy to know that I'm about to implement property selection for GetFeatureInfo, pretty much the same way as GetFeature works Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
