Response from Jody, which bounced on the mapbuilder list ... On 11/26/07, Jody Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cameron Shorter wrote: > > Yes Jody, I like the name "Context Portrayal Service" which is a > > semi-regular request on the Mapbuilder list. Or rather, people ask to > > print their maps they created in a web browser and find they run into > > browser limitations that could be solved by a Context Portrayal Service. > I see; so something like ... set up a community/cps module, make it > available as an optional download for geoserver, have people install the > optional download, and then from mapbuild send the CPS the context > document representing the current screen and ask for it to be rendered > as a high quality PDF. > > That could work; it is not a bad story. Note you could probably fake > this as a WPS since that specification is so generic. > > I'd suspect that a Context Portral Service could relatively easily be > > built from geotools components and it would make sense to bundle it > > into the Geserver functionality. > Try and keep it at arms length, as a community module. The definition of > new services using GeoServer as a scaffolding is to be encouraged :-) > > I should note that I am generally uncomfortable with the whole genre of > WPS where we expect GeoServer to on the fly connect to services it has > never seen before (as an example inline GML, and inline wfs layers > defined in an SLD document give me the same hesitations). > > Best of luck, > Jody > > > > Jody Garnett wrote: > >> It is not really the job of GeoServer to support a context document > >> right? That is something that a client application would use to > >> configure itself to display the indicated scene. It may be that all > >> the information comes from a single GeoServer install (or from > >> several open web services); but that matter is up to the client > >> application. > >> > >> Now you could make a new open web service (context portrayal service) > >> that just makes use of geoserver to to compose the image from several > >> sources); something similar was done for feature portrayal service in > >> the past. I am not sure if this is a useful workflow or not ... > >> > >> Jody > >> > >>> Can Geoserver render a map image from a Web Map Context or OWS > >>> Context document? > >>> > >>> This would be very useful to browser clients which have problems > >>> with some browsers printing (to paper) more than one layer. > >>> To support this properly, Geoserver would need to support cascading > >>> WMS and WFS so that it can access all the layers in the Context. > >>> > >>> I'm guessing that UDig would have much of the functionality required? > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > >
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