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universal format parser for Leaflet & Mapbox.js
https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/example/v1.0.0/omnivore-gpx/
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GML (Geographic Markup Language) Support? #89

Closed FilmCoder closed 7 years ago

FilmCoder commented 8 years ago

OGC's WFS protocol uses GML to transport vector features. Will there be support added for this?

tmcw commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion! This is the first request of GML support. There are Leaflet plugins for GML/WFS:

  1. https://github.com/respec/leaflet.wfs-t
  2. https://github.com/Flexberry/Leaflet-WFST
  3. https://github.com/azgs/azgs-leaflet

I think we should point to those plugins instead of supporting GML. leaflet-omnivore is a file format support module, and will not expand to being a service support module in order to support WFS, and the GML format is very rare outside of its role in WFS, and quite a complex format.

FilmCoder commented 8 years ago

Thanks so much! I'm trying to maintain a front-end webpage with a map client which is able to consume WMS/WMTS, and now we're trying to add support for WFS which uses GML. Do you think Leaflet is a good tool for this, or do you think we would be better off switching to a more feature-complete tool like OpenLayers, which has WFS/GML support built in?

We already have our map code written for leaflet so we're considering if we should switch.

Thanks so much for any advice you can offer!

ps. I have been looking at the links you posted. Some of them seem to be dead repos. I also see that none of them explicitly support the GML Simple Features Profile.

tmcw commented 8 years ago

For GML, you might want to use OpenLayers: Leaflet is arguably better, more popular, and easier to use, but OpenLayers is more geared toward older and more corporate technology like WFS - it has the best WFS support out there.

tmcw commented 7 years ago

Closing; out of scope.