Starting to work with OGC Web Services (Starting to work with OGC Web Series - First edition)
Starting to work with OGC Web Services
An introduction to work with OGC WMS/WFS from Geographic Information System applications
About the Book
This book aims to help to understand the web services technology from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) like the Web Map Service (WMS) and the Web Feature Service (WFS), and its use with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications. It does not pretend to be extensively technical for being appropriate for any reader.
Most of the text, instructions and images shown in the following chapters are based on using Quantum GIS Desktop, one of the best free open source Geographic Information System applications that can be downloaded directly from its web site. However, another free or commercial GIS application can be used to connect and retrieve cartography with the basics here exposed, always that it supports this technology.
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About the Editor
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
- Prerequisites
- Web services
- OGC web services
- Additional resources
Working with a Web Map Service (WMS)
- Retrieving a WMS layer from a web browser
- Retrieving a WMS layer from Quantum GIS Desktop
- Querying a WMS layer from Quantum GIS Desktop
- Exercises
- Additional resources
Working with a Web Feature Service (WFS)
- Retrieving a WFS layer from a web browser
- Retrieving a WFS layer from Quantum GIS Desktop
- Filtering a WFS layer from Quantum GIS Desktop
- Exercises
- Additional resources
Public resources
- Public resources from Canada
- Public resources from United States
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