Re: [Geoserver-users] using UNION filter function on GeoServer

[Andrea A. <and...@ge...>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Xiaoming Qin <qin...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> Is there a way to utilize GeoServer's Geometric Filters from OpenLayers? I
> use  WFS protocol to retrieve multiple polygons and need to union them and
> show as single polygon.
>

That's not the job of WFS, you can just retrieve data, not alter it.
What you're looking for would be WPS, which instead is born to
manipulate and alter data. However the exact process you're
looking for it not there yet I believe

Cheers
Andrea

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