[udig-devel] 1.1RC3 versus Mapserver WFS

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Tue Sep 5 16:16:32 PDT 2006


Well, that's confusing.  When your mapserver was advertising in EPSG: 
4326, presumably it was also serving the data in the same CRS.  I  
wonder what the story is.

On 5-Sep-06, at 1:11 PM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> the scenario you describe works correctly.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
> Paul Ramsey schreef:
>> Well, the info tool has a long history of not correctly working  
>> with mixed CRS (*cough*Garnett*cough*), but I haven't seen that  
>> behavior in a while. OTOH, this kind of behavior (same action,  
>> different results for different data stores and different CRSs)  
>> seems to leak around.
>>
>> Perhaps someone here could validate this by (a) connecting to one  
>> of our Mapserver WFS instances (b) trying the info tool on the  
>> features (c) changing their view CRS to something else (d) trying  
>> the info tool again.
>>
>> My money is on "bug".
>>
>> P
>>
>> On 5-Sep-06, at 12:35 PM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
>>
>>> Not it works should have been now it works.
>>>
>>> Bart
>>>
>>> Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) schreef:
>>>> Some more info on the Info not working.
>>>>
>>>> I solved this by changing the SRS that my Mapserver WFS was  
>>>> advertizing to the native one (EPSG:28992). It was previously  
>>>> advertizing in EPSG:4326.
>>>>
>>>> Not it works.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe it gives somebody a pointer to what might have gone wrong  
>>>> before?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Bart
>>>>
>>>> Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) schreef:
>>>>> Hi list,
>>>>>
>>>>> uDIG 1.1RC3 works succesfully against Mapserver WFS (I am  
>>>>> testing 4.10 beta2).
>>>>>
>>>>> A few notes:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Info does not work. Any way I can debug this? Maybe somebody  
>>>>> can send me an example HTTP POST request that uDIG uses for  
>>>>> this, then I can try it with Python.
>>>>> 2) Mapserver advertizes
>>>>>
>>>>> gml:GeometryPropertyType
>>>>>
>>>>> and uDIG shows a line symbol in the legend, while my data is  
>>>>> polygons. Any ideas why? Does it not inspect the GML for this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Bart
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --Bart van den Eijnden
>>> OSGIS, Open Source GIS
>>> http://www.osgis.nl
>>>
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>
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