Chris' GISmo's » wfs-t http://blog.webmapper.com.au Not another GIS blog Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:22:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 WFS-T adventures with Mapinfo 9.5 http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2008/06/18/wfs-t-adventures-with-mapinfo-95/ http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2008/06/18/wfs-t-adventures-with-mapinfo-95/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:17:57 +0000 Chris Tweedie http://chris.narx.net/?p=185
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    • ]]>     So i’ve been a bit late taking a look at the new Mapinfo Professional v9.5. With the consistent dissapointment towards the consumption of OGC standards in commercial apps I wasn’t holding my breath … but wait a sec, it did work and it worked damn well. I mean, it worked flawlessly; updates, inserts, deletes, lock support and it also comes complete with a semi-intelligent conflict manager.

    Mapinfo

    A few more suggestions to improve things further (for anyone listening~) …

    1. Add HTTP compression handling. Huge performance gains with the transfer of features and its really a no brainer to enable in any http library.
    2. I am by no means a “Mapinfo Master” ™, but it would be great to enable an automated WFS Table refresh especially if you are retrieving features based on CURRENT_MAPPER.  I guess the CTRL+F5 shortcut makes it easy-ish … but i certainly found myself wondering whether i had retrieved the features or not and ended up just sending unnecessary requests.
    3. If a transaction is successful, give me some kind of alert. Alerting only when it fails does not instill much confidence whether my long edit session went through or not (even after refreshing)
    4. It would be fantastic to add helpful warning messages when performance drops. I’d imagine most users would skim over the maxfeatures and column / row filters and just add the layer.

      5. If the first request takes 5 minutes and Mapinfo tells me i just retrieved 4000 poly features totalling 10mb and it kindly directed me to the WFS how-to, i’d be more inclined to see what the filtering options were all about :)

    So there’s no WFS1.1 support … but i’m still trying to get my head around handling the axis order issue and are more than happy to let sleeping dogs lie … at least for the moment. I only had time to test against our Geoserver installs, but it certainly seems tested against many other apps including Cadcorp, Ionic & Mapinfo. Geoserver specific here, but the advanced security in 1.6.x works very well with the bundled support for basic authentication.

    Finally…

    Related posts:

    1. WFS Feature paging … yes please
    2. CarbonArc revisited
    3. The problem with OGC support ..

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