[Users] Using wms to display data and wfs for searching ?

[Ian Turton]

On 18 July 2011 16:16, Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a while back now someone gave me the advice to display my features as wms
> but search and query them via wfs. Is this the recommended way of doing
> things?
>
> Does anyone have an example of a simple app which uses this methodology so I
> can analyse this approach? I am unsure about how I should load the wfs which
> displaying them
>

See http://ian01.geog.psu.edu/geoserver/www/search/gazetteer.html for
an example of this approach, there is more description of how I built
it at http://ian01.geog.psu.edu/geoserver_docs/apps/gaz/index.html

Ian