Is there a webpage that outlines the capabilities of the geoserver web
map server? I haven't found an up-to-date description. If there is none
at the moment, could please somebody state the current status of the web
map server?
- supported image formats
- supported WMS requests
- SLD (what level of support is there?)
- other special capabilites?
- ...
Simon
Is there a webpage that outlines the capabilities of the geoserver web
map server? I haven't found an up-to-date description. If there is none
at the moment, could please somebody state the current status of the web
map server?- supported image formats
Using the geotools JAI-based renderer, it supports png,
x-portable-graymap, jpeg, jpeg2000, x-png, tiff, vnd.wap.wbmp,
x-portable-pixmap, x-portable-bitmap, bmp, and x-portable-anymap. The
geotools render fully supports sld as far as I know, so all these can be
styled. There is also support for SVG, but no styling is available.
- supported WMS requests
GetCapabilities and GetMap are the only supported requests right now.
GetFeatureInfo and GetLegendGraphic have been written in gt2wms, but they
still need to be ported to GeoServer.
- SLD (what level of support is there?)
Styles can be defined by the administrator and placed in the wms/styles
directory (I think we should change it to conf/styles, or did someone do
that yet?). These are currently available to all layers to try to render
if they can. I think Andrea has written a visitor to figure out which
styles they can actually support, but that has not yet been ported to
GeoServer? User defined sld support is not available yet, hopefully
someone will take the lead on this, making geoserver a full sld wms. If
no one does soon I'll probably eventually get to it, but I've got 1.2.0 on
my plate for awhile, helping out the refractions team.
- other special capabilites?
I think Gabriel added some stuff, like support for filters (which is
outside the wms spec, but which is fairly trivial to implement with the
geotools feature and data model). He can probably say better about what
else is in the wms, and I think he's been working on it a bit lately.
If anyone is interested we would love to have more wms capabilities for
1.2.0. You can see the roadmap at
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10311&report=roadmap
Assign yourself an issue for the 1.2-beta, after that we'll more or less
do a feature freeze before 1.2.0. And you're also more than welcome to
just create wms features that you would like to see, and someone may get
interested in contributing and pick them up.
Chris
- ...
Simon
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