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Princeton University Library Geoblacklight application.
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WFS display issues #445

Open escowles opened 6 years ago

escowles commented 6 years ago

Two issues with WFS web services:

  1. It looks like all items are showing up, not just the selected record
  2. The display shows only the ID, not the title or other labels that would be helpful

wfs-labels

escowles commented 6 years ago

(From Wangyal in last Friday's meeting)

eliotjordan commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately, # 1 is an issue with all WMS/WFS services. Not much we can do about it, except join the OGC and participate in new versions of the spec (which is a good idea, really). It might be possible to generate an ArcGIS LayerFile or QGIS Layer Definition file that the user could download and open in the application directly. In theory, this would add only the selected layer to the map canvas. This would require some time for exploration and engineering. The QGIS Layer Definition is just XML, so that wouldn't be too difficult. The Layer File is a proprietary binary format, but I've done some poking around and it's seems fairly straightforward.

As for # 2, I can investigate, but I'm not sure adding the layer title instead of it's ID will make it any easier to find the correct layer from a list of thousands.