One reason, for us anyway: In modern browsers retrieving the features once makes display much quicker than making network requests all the time for png/jpg imagery - particularly with many layers / tiles.
Unfortunately "modern browsers" doesn't include IE8...... Jesse On Thursday, May 17, 2012 09:29:44 AM Phil Scadden wrote: > Hi Steve, I wonder why you want to make the transition from WMS to WFS? > My strategy is use WMS for display on map, and use WFS for queries. > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Select-WFS-Features-using-intersect-of-p > olygon-td4467419.html#a4470543 has example of WFS query. This uses a > wfsProtocol object. The > fromWMSLayer is just easy way to create this protocol when you are using > wms for display. > > Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in > error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the > contents. > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users
