filtering a map

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filtering a map

by Bart van den Eijnden :: Rate this Message:

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Hi list,

am I right in saying that currently in order to make a map in the default
style using a filter on the data, that one has to do the following:

1) perform a GetStyles request to get the SLD for the default style
2) build an ogc:Filter and put it into the SLD document
3) perform a GetMap request with the constructed SLD document from step 2

? Or am I missing something which will make this easier?

Many of the WMS products I know have done something vendor-specific to
make this more easy. For instance Geoserver has a CQL_FILTER parameter in
the GetMap request, and also Mapserver can do a similar thing with
variable substitution.

Would it not make sense to make it easier in the WMS spec to perform this
very common use case?

Best regards,
Bart

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