[Geoserver-devel] RE: some produce docs

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Thanks Chris,

  I was planning to look at this today. It actually makes more sense
to me to extend WFS, since svg is a vector format not raster as in WMS. It
is nice to have WMS capability on a vector datastore as a fall back for
clients without svg capability. However, it makes more sense to serve svg
out of WFS as an alternative format to GML and have filter query and
transaction capability.

Thanks
Randy

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes@anonymised.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:39 AM
To: randy george
Subject: some produce docs

This went to geoserver list, but you might have missed it;

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Create+your+own+Output+Format?decor
ator=printable

It's for wfs output, but the way wms is done is very similar. It's not
the best overview, but the walkthrough gives you a good picture of how to
add a new one.

C

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Hi Randy,
    I can agree with you when you say "... makes more sense ... to extend WFS... since svg..." ,
but why don't use Batik and the svg-producer functionality, ..., so extending the WMS behaviour.
    Simply, create an SVGGraphics objects, and draw using Java2D to this context.... exactly the way
actual WMS raster implementations do getting a Graphic context from a BufferedImage..... There are lots of example on
batik project....

     Bye.

                                                                                                    Giacomo.

randy george wrote:

Thanks Chris,

I was planning to look at this today. It actually makes more sense
to me to extend WFS, since svg is a vector format not raster as in WMS. It
is nice to have WMS capability on a vector datastore as a fall back for
clients without svg capability. However, it makes more sense to serve svg
out of WFS as an alternative format to GML and have filter query and
transaction capability.

Thanks
Randy

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes@anonymised.com] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:39 AM
To: randy george
Subject: some produce docs

This went to geoserver list, but you might have missed it;

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Create+your+own+Output+Format?decor
ator=printable

It's for wfs output, but the way wms is done is very similar. It's not the best overview, but the walkthrough gives you a good picture of how to add a new one.

C