Hi Paul, if you want to share geodata within your organization on a private network a database is the best solution: faster and simpler. The constraint is that you will need an application (like QGIS) to access your data..
WFS is a web service standard for interoperability, it is ideal for sharing data on the internet over HTTP, there is no need for a particular application to use the service: any HTTP client is able to do that. Regards On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 3:43 PM Paul Wittle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As I’m sure is clear from the number of posts I’ve done of late we are > currently looking at how we use QGIS within our business. I thought I’d ask a > question here to see if others are considering it as I can’t find too much > chat online about it but I wondered if perhaps there should be some. > > > > We have concluded that in theory the WFS and WFS-T protocols are an OGC > standard (https://www.ogc.org/standards/wfs) and that using an OGC compliant > server they can be used to front various data source formats; i.e. Postgres, > Oracle, SQL Server etc. In theory that means that if you use WFS and WFS-T in > QGIS it should mean that user experience becomes more consistent for the > people using those layers in QGIS. > > > > That all sounds great, but I can’t seem to even get my WFS to load correctly > in QGIS at present and it doesn’t seem to be something that is recommended > online. Given that both WFS and direct database access both return full > details (vector geometries and attributes) to QGIS; would you expect > performance of WFS to be similar or significantly slower? > > > > Is the use of OGC compliant WFS something that you personally feel is > something we should be aspiring to use more widely at the local / network > level in QGIS or do you favour just loading directly from databases? > > > > I’m honestly very interested to hear what others think on this as > theoretically you would think the creation of an OGC standard would have this > sort of aspiration but I’m increasingly concluding that this kind of use of > WFS is very limited. It seems to me that the most common use case is just for > occasional layers where you need to work with others over the internet. > > > > To ensure we are talking about the same thing; I’m thinking that the access > to WFS in this context would be locally within your own network or device as > clearly going over the internet will add a significant overhead and potential > for delay. > > > > Feel free to message me back directly or message the group if you think it is > a worthwhile discussion but as I say I’d love to hear what others think. > > > > Cheers, > > Paul > > > > > > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use > of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. It may contain > unclassified but sensitive or protectively marked material and should be > handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to > receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to > anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify > the sender immediately. All traffic may be subject to recording and/or > monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. Any views expressed in > this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender > specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of Dorset Council. > Dorset Council does not accept service of documents by fax or other > electronic means. Virus checking: Whilst all reasonable steps have been taken > to ensure that this electronic communication and its attachments whether > encoded, encrypted or otherwise supplied are free from computer viruses, > Dorset Council accepts no liability in respect of any loss, cost, damage or > expense suffered as a result of accessing this message or any of its > attachments. For information on how Dorset Council processes your > information, please see www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/416433 > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Alessandro Pasotti QCooperative: www.qcooperative.net ItOpen: www.itopen.it _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
