Hi Guys,
We have ‘apparently’ built our first WMS server and ‘successfully deployed’ it to our in-house server. We can access the server via the Web and using tools built around ThinkGeo products all as per the Quick Start Guide (gis.thinkgeo.com/Support/Dis...fault.aspx)
The main purpose of this WMS server we want to develop is to allow third parties to consume it with whatever tools they are using; this is where we have hit major problems. We have tried other vendor’s tools such as ESRI ArcMap, the Tatukgis Viewer and various other ‘free’ WMS viewers, all without success. They all complain in some way or another about capabilities and styles.
We took a look at the demo server you have at wmssamples.thinkgeo.com/WmsServer.aspx that functions nicely using all our external tools. When viewing the capabilities from this server it produces distinctly different XML so far as layers and styles are concerned. All you need to do is to display the capabilities for this server and compare them to what is in the Quick Start Guide (section 4) to see that there appear to be problems with the way that the layer and style XML is being generated.
I realise that the product is in Beta but we were hoping to see something a little better than this.
Would it be possible for you guys to build a WMS server with the toolkit, deploy it to your server; let us have the URL and the source so we can test it against ESRI, TatukGis et al? This would help us understand where we have gone wrong.
Regards
John