SimpleFeatureService: yet another attempt to simplify vector data dissemination – Part I
In the current web gis world the most common standard protocol to disseminate vector data is the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS). While the protocol is fine, it has a number of shortcomings if we focus on the simple features dissemination case:the protocol is complex, writing a client is often hard and error prone, same goes for implementing a new WFS serverthe axis order issue makes it difficult, even today, to know what the axis order of the data returned by a WFS isusage of GML implies there are many ways to present the same information or the same geometry...
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