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Associate layers from different services

Case number:100-3
Project:OWS Context
Opened by:cshorter
Status:Open
Assigned:Anonymous
Priority:3
Type:Feature Request
Opened on:Friday, February 1, 2008 - 15:06
Last modified:Friday, February 1, 2008 - 15:18

OWS Context and Catalog interfaces don't allow you to associate a WFS Layer with a WMS layer. This would be very useful in a search and discovery interface where a user starts a search using a WMS interface and then changes to WFS when you finally want to download a large dataset.

A context format like the following might work:

<Layer queryable="0" hidden="0">
<Server service="OGC:WMS" version="1.0.0" title="OGC:WMS" default="1">
<OnlineResource xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="http://localhost:8080/wms"/>
</Server>
<Server service="OGC:WFS" version="1.0.0" title="OGC:WFS">
<OnlineResource xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="http://localhost:8080/wms"/>
</Server>
<Name>basic</Name>
<Title>World Basemap</Title>
<SRS>EPSG:4326</SRS>
</Layer>

Note, this means that a WFS layer should be inserted inside a LAYER tag instead of a FEATURETYPE tag.

Similarly, COVERAGE should

Similarly, COVERAGE should be included inside the LAYER tag with <Server service="Coverage" ... >;