[Geowanking] ESRI Products and OGC Services

[Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au]

Thanks Greg,

The snippet that you sent includes critical info for me.

We have a business need to support complex features with WFS. That does 
not appear to be coming (from ESRI) for at least 18 months from my reading 
of the info available. Please correct me if I'm wrong ESRI.

Bruce

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Bruce Bannerman
IT Solutions Architect - GIS

Information Development Branch
Minerals and Petroleum Division
Department of Primary Industries - Victoria
Australia





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Bruce, 
 
Apologies to you (and the list) for sending redundant information. That's 
what I get for responding too quickly -- I read right past the part of 
your note that mentioned that you already know about the link that I sent.

As for real-world experience, I haven't tried working with ESRI's OGC 
stuff beyond WMS since ArcIMS 4 (the WFS connector available back then). 
The WMS support in ArcIMS 9.1 seems OK; our client handles it fine. I 
don't like how they handle layers though, from what I remember it's hard 
with a client to get only one from a service based on ArcIMS out. We 
haven't installed ArcIMS 9.2 yet.

I am interested in seeing what's in the next release, especially for 
server. I'm more interested in the ability to consume services for use in 
anlaysis that can provide results to our users than publishing with ESRI. 
I'm not sure how scalable server is for WMS publishing, but it's hard to 
beat the analysis tools that you can publish with it.

I asked about OGC support in the pre-conference survey for the ESRI user 
conference this year. I receive two replies, including this:

<snip>
"We are going to support WFS and WFS-T as part of ArcGIS Server at 9.3 
(winter). We are making a major investment with 9.3 to do a number of 
things: upgrade WMS (including support for legend modification), WCS (for 
raster format), and WFS (with simple GML)."
<snip>

>From Jack Dangermond, no less! Well, from a staff person on his behalf, 
but I was suprised to see his e-mail in my inbox.

cheers,

Greg



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