Re: [Geoserver-devel] Rendering a Context document from Geoserver?

[Cameron S. <cam...@gm...>]

Yes Jody, I like the name "Context Portrayal Service" which is a 
semi-regular request on the Mapbuilder list. Or rather, people ask to 
print their maps they created in a web browser and find they run into 
browser limitations that could be solved by a Context Portrayal Service.

I'd suspect that a Context Portral Service could relatively easily be 
built from geotools components and it would make sense to bundle it into 
the Geserver functionality.

Jody Garnett wrote:
> It is not really the job of GeoServer to support a context document 
> right? That is something that a client application would use to 
> configure itself to display the indicated scene. It may be that all 
> the information comes from a single GeoServer install  (or from 
> several open web services); but that matter is up to the client 
> application.
>
> Now you could make a new open web service (context portrayal service) 
> that just makes use of geoserver to to compose the image from several 
> sources); something similar was done for feature portrayal service in 
> the past. I am not sure if this is a useful workflow or not ...
>
> Jody
>
>> Can Geoserver render a map image from a Web Map Context or OWS 
>> Context document?
>>
>> This would be very useful to browser clients which have problems with 
>> some browsers printing (to paper) more than one layer.
>> To support this properly, Geoserver would need to support cascading 
>> WMS and WFS so that it can access all the layers in the Context.
>>
>> I'm guessing that UDig would have much of the functionality required?
>>
>
>


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