John, from the little bit of experiance I have of WCS -- i found Mapscript support for WCS somewhat lacking. I believe this is being addressed for future releases. Mapserver-CGI is probably the way to go. Someone can correct me if I haven't kept up-to-date.
cheers Shoaib
> > > Good Afternoon All, > > I would like to use a WFS and WCS server as the front end for > a software > application we have that encodes our data in GML3.1.1. From > what I have > read on this list, it seems like MapServer is capable of > acting as a WFS > and WCS server. Is that correct? Correct. OGC:WFS 1.0.0 (serving GML2 and GML3 level 0), and OGC:WCS 1.0.0. > Is there any reason why it > wouldn't > be a good approach to use MapServer solely as a WFS and WCS > servers? If > this plan seems reasonable, where would you suggest I turn to > learn how > to implement these features of the MapServer? > MapServer is flexible enough to act in many modes e.g. CGI mode as well as various OGC Web Services. For learning resources, check out the OGC howtos on http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs. The MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop (http://devgeo.cciw.ca/ms_ogc_workshop/index.html) also provides a good tutorial and examples on getting up to speed on supporting OGC specifications in MapServer. > In advance, thanks for your help. > > John > > By the way, if this message duplicates an earlier post I sent, please > pardon the extra mail. I got the following message, but > never saw "the > original message" show up on the list. > > Your message is being returned to you unprocessed because > it appears > to have > already been distributed to the MAPSERVER-USERS list. That is, a > message with > identical text (but possibly with different mail headers) has been > posted to > the list recently, either by you or by someone else. If you have > reason to > resend this message to the list (for instance because you have been > notified of > a hardware failure with loss of data), please alter the text of the > message in > some way and resend it to the list. Note that altering the > "Subject:" > line or > adding blank lines at the top or bottom of the message is not > sufficient; you > should instead add a sentence or two at the top > explaining why > you are > resending the message, so that the other subscribers > understand why > they are > getting two copies of the same message. >
