<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Chris,<div><br></div><div>because of the difficulties you point out, there has never been any effort to parse something like WCS GetCapabilities, but it wouldn't be too hard.</div><div><br></div><div>The only WCS support that I ever wrote was a small piece of WCS GetCoverage XML to use in a WPS request (so this is write-only):</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/blob/master/lib/OpenLayers/Format/WCSGetCoverage.js">https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/blob/master/lib/OpenLayers/Format/WCSGetCoverage.js</a></div><div><br></div><div>Start at the OpenLayers level with a parser for WCS GetCapabilities, and then add a GeoExt reader (if you need info about the actual coverages besides the service metadata) I would say.</div><div><br></div><div>If you need more guidance let me know.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bart</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Oct 24, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Christopher Eykamp <<a href="mailto:christopher.eykamp@tudor.lu">christopher.eykamp@tudor.lu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello,<br><br>Another question for the list. We're currently using GeoExt to grab <br>metadata from WFS/WMS servers, to see what layers are on offer, and <br>display some info about them. We do some light data visualization, but <br>we are primarily interested in helping users choose layers to be passed <br>on to a WPS.<br><br>Now we need to add WCS to the mix, and it looks like GeoExt offers no <br>support for this.<br><br>Before I try to add some some level of WCS support to GeoExt, I was <br>wondering if there are any tools available to do this already, or if <br>using GeoExt is even a good way to get WCS metadata. Note that I am not <br>interested in working with the data directly (I understand the <br>difficulties this would present for a web-based tool), but I do need <br>access to the WCS metadata.<br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Chris<br>_______________________________________________<br>Users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Users@geoext.org">Users@geoext.org</a><br>http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>