[TinyOWS-users] Correct way to give BBOX as KVP with WFS 1.1.0

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

Geoserver people consider defaulting WGS84 for BBOX in WFS 1.1.0 insane and they are going to keep the current behaviour which is the same than TinyOWS has. So I think there is no need to change it in TinyOWS either even the standard text really seems to tell the opposite. It might be nice to have a support for the fifth BBOX parameter (crsuri) though.

-Jukka Rahkonen-
 

 Rahkonen Jukka wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This one gives me features:
> 
> [1] 
> http://hip.latuviitta.org/cgi-bin/tinyows?service=wfs&version=
> 1.1.0&request=GetFeature&typename=lv:municipalities&BBOX=24670
0,6780800,436400,6924000
> 
> This one doesn't
> [2] 
> http://hip.latuviitta.org/cgi-bin/tinyows?service=wfs&version=
> 1.1.0&request=GetFeature&typename=lv:municipalities&BBOX=24670
0,6780800,436400,6924000,EPSG:3067
> 
> The result is an error
> <ows:ExceptionText>Bad parameters for Bbox, must be 
> Xmin,Ymin,Xmax,Ymax</ows:ExceptionText></ows:Exception>
> 
> However, I am reading from the OGC WFS 1.1.0 standard (OGC 04-094)
> 
> 14.3.3 Bounding box
> The bounding box parameter, BBOX, is included in this 
> specification for convenience as a shorthand representation 
> of the very common a bounding box filter which would be 
> expressed in much longer form using XML and the filter 
> encoding described in [3]. A BBOX applies to all feature 
> types listed in the request.
> The KVP encoding for a bounding box is defined in subclause 
> 10.2.3 of normative reference [15]. The general form of the 
> parameter is:
> BBOX=lcc1,lcc2,...,lccN,ucc1,ucc2,...uccN[,crsuri]
> where lcc means Lower Corner Coordinate, ucc means Upper 
> Corner Coordinate and crsuri means the URI reference to the 
> coordinate system being used. This encoding allows N 
> coordinates for each corner listed in the order of the 
> optional crsuri. If the crsuri is not specified then the 2-D 
> coordinates shall be specified using decimal degrees and 
> WGS84 as described in [15].
> 
> Should I understand this so that my request [2] should give 
> me results and that [1], which is a correct WFS 1.0.0 BBOX, 
> is not a correct  WFS 1.1.0 BBOX because without crsuri BBOX 
> should be interpreted to mean a WGS84 box and then obviously 
> extents 246700,6780800,436400,6924000 are rather wide?
> 
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
> 
> 
> 
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