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

[Antony Scott]

To endorse Ian's message - I just used his tutorial to add WFS-based searching to my app, it all works and is a very clear and full document, so many thanks Ian for this!

Antony

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From: users-bounces at geoext.org [mailto:users-bounces at geoext.org] On Behalf Of Ian Turton
Sent: 18 July 2011 16:49
To: Robert Buckley
Cc: users at geoext.org
Subject: Re: [Users] Using wms to display data and wfs for searching ?

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
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