If you’re anything like me, you’ve been squirreling away useful Shapefiles on your hard drive for years. Maybe even carefully organizing them to the point where you have a multi-gigabyte personal geodata library close at hand. Well, I’ve just started noticing that I’ve been adding WMS Capabilities documents to my library, beginning to count on these services being reliable and ready.
rajsingh.org blog
the geoweb, interoperability, OGC, and random rants
You mean you don’t just run a WMS/WFS all the time on your machine to hold all those shapefiles for you?
Ian
But I don’t want to save data sets locally at all, just call them via services as needed!
But the holy grail remains Raj, are they actually reliable? :)