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Web Feature Service

TAP Endorsed Specification
Description
 

A Web Feature Service allows a client to perform data manipulation operations on a set of geographic features. Data manipulation operations include the ability to:

  1. Get or Query features based on spatial and non-spatial constraints.
  2. Create a new feature
  3. Delete a feature
  4. Update a feature

Complete description  |  Example servers  

see also: Web Map Service and Web Coverage Service.

Implementation Specification
 
Version
Date
Location
1.0.0  
2002.09.19  
Geoconnections
02-058.pdf

Open Geospatial Consortium
02-058.pdf

 
Status
 
2001.06.12 Endorsed by the Geoconnections Technology Advisory Panel
Other Info
 

WFS relies on Geographic Markup Language (GML).

The WFS specification is being developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium.

This service may be merged with the Web Map Service and/or the Web Coverage Service.

effective 2002.11.18