33Putting the Discount WFS to Work

Here's a more interesting use of the cheapo WFS from last week: mining the next generation MapServer website's portal membership for the latitude and longitude properties (just added by Hobu) and publishing them as a WFS.

Here's the layer definition for MapServer users who'd like to try it out:

LAYER
   NAME "members"
   TYPE POINT
   STATUS DEFAULT
   CONNECTIONTYPE WFS
   CONNECTION "http://zcologia.com:9001/mapserver/members/features.rpy?"
   METADATA
     "wfs_service" "WFS"
     "wfs_typename" "member"
     "wfs_version" "1.0.0"
   END
   LABELITEM "zco:fullname"
   PROJECTION "+init=epsg:4326" END
END

The service root is

http://zcologia.com:9001/mapserver/members/

and the online resource URL for capabilities is

http://zcologia.com:9001/mapserver/members/description.rpy

So far it's just Hobu, Yves, and me:

As other members provide a location, the service will update (every 5 minutes). The picture above will not. I've tried no other clients save uDig, which likes my capabilities, but gags on my feature response. Your mileage may vary.