Hi Jacob, thanks for the feedback.
With respect to rasterization of vector data, I had thought of that as well, but Mapserver WCS currently does not support that. It is also questionable if this is intended by the WCS spec. But anyway, I think it would be a great enhancement for Mapserver, so to not forget about it I have opened up an enhancement bug: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1601 Best regards, Bart > Bart, > > Sounds great. These methods of data requests are popular in Australia > too, and are much preferred over having to wait a week (or more) for > your data. > > I'd be careful with having too many controls in the application, though. > It appears to have more functionality than it may need for its purpose, > which may scare people off a bit, if they are not familiar with it. > Maybe you could use tabs to hide the ones less often needed? > > Also, make sure potential buyers understand that the downloaded data may > not look the same (symbolisation,colours, etc.) when downloaded. We get > that problem a lot when our draftspeople want to import GIS data. For > this reason, our draftspeople are often more satisfied with a rendered > image (ECW), looking like the original topographic GIS map. Maybe you > want to consider raster as an output format too? > > I'm sure this application will be very successful. Looks great, too. > > Regards, > > Jacob > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: UMN MapServer Users List >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart van >> den Eijnden (OSGIS) >> Sent: 8 January 2006 22:48 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] G-delivery service >> >> Hi people, >> >> I wanted to report back some info about a project I recently did and >> share some ideas. The project's purpose was building a G-delivery >> service, much alike the situation which exists for a few >> years already >> in Canada (although the project I did is used in an intranet). >> >> The project combines Mapserver, GDAL/OGR and Chameleon. It is >> based on >> OGC standards, mostly Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web >> Coverage Service >> (WCS). >> >> The ideas I wrote up are available at: >> >> http://www.osgis.nl/G-delivery.pdf >> >> Comments or suggestions are very much welcome. If anybody is >> interested >> in more details, let me know. >> >> Best regards, >> Bart >> >> -- >> Bart van den Eijnden >> OSGIS, Open Source GIS >> http://www.osgis.nl >> > >
