[wms-dev] Suggestion for Common GetFeatureInfo Response Format

[Andrew Hallam]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:39:48 -0500, "Daniel Morissette"
> I didn't get my head fully wrapped around your whole proposal enough to 
> comment on its completeness,...

Point me to the parts of my write-up that are not clear to you and I'll 
do what I can to clarify. :-)

> I can already hear the objections that queries should be done 
> via WFS and not WMS, and return GML and not simple XML, 

Sure, that can be done, but what I'm looking for is something simple 
that has the potential to work with any WMS client application. No mess, 
no fuss.

 > but IMHO a simple
> well-known GetFeatureInfo response to complement WMS (without the need 
> of a WFS and GML parser) would be a great thing. 

IMHO, I agree.

> As Allan commented, I am not sure what the chances are of getting this 
> included in the WMS spec, but if this can be handled via a 
> vendor-specific parameter at least initially then perhaps the first step 
> would be to submit this as a discussion paper to OGC and see how far it 
> goes. If something like this was ever adopted, even just as a discussion 
> paper, then I'd be interested in getting MapServer (server) and 
> Chameleon (client) to support it.

Thanks for the positive response. If there is some interest by members 
of this list I'm happy to submit it (preferably after a bit of a tidy up).

Andrew