On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Andy Akins
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Sorry to pull up an old thread. We just now realized that the feature limit
> was on there and we have been offering our shapefiles for a month. (Yikes!)
> Basically what I'm seeing is Geoserver isn't meant to be an FTP for
> downloading shapefiles? The very thing we were excited about was being able
> to serve nightly-updated data, but if people can't get the full data
> there's
> no point. Could this be added to the documentation? Or maybe it is and I
> didn't see it.
>
The problem is that people keep on mistaking the Layer Preview for something
more of what it is.
The WFS service allows you to download full files no problem, but the
preview
is just a _preview_, it's a facilitation to see the contents of the server,
but it's
not replacement for direct usage of the protocols.
If we left the preview download unbounded people clicking on the GML link
with large
layers would have their browser simply explode after receiving several
gigabytes
of XML.
>
> We still have some clients using the WFS through ArcMap, which works great,
> but now we have to go back to our old way of manually zipping the
> shapefiles
> for public download.
>
All because you cannot make your own front-end to download the files?
Just create a page with links looking like:
http://host:port
/geoserver/ows?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=<typeName>&outputFormat=SHAPE-ZIP
Cheers
Andrea
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