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GeoServer Cookbook

GeoServer Cookbook

By : Iacovella
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GeoServer Cookbook

GeoServer Cookbook

4.8 (6)
By: Iacovella

Overview of this book

This book is ideal for GIS experts, developers, and system administrators who have had a first glance at GeoServer and who are eager to explore all its features in order to configure professional map servers. Basic knowledge of GIS and GeoServer is required.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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WFS versus feature access

If you open the capabilities panel for the ArcGIS service again, you will note that there is an option called feature access. This lets you enable the feature streaming to a client.

With this option enabled, your clients can acquire features and symbology information to ArcGIS and render them directly on the client side. In fact, feature access can also be used to edit features, that is, you can modify the features on the client and then post the changes on the server.

WFS versus feature access

When you check the Feature Access option, many specific settings appear. In particular, you'll note that by default, the Update operation is enabled, but the Geometry Updates is disabled, so you can't edit the shape of each feature.

If you want to stream features using a standard approach, you should instead turn on the WFS option. ArcGIS for Server supports versions 1.1 and 1.0 of WFS. Moreover, the transactional option, also known as WFS-T, is fully supported.

WFS versus feature access

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