Blog: Data sources

WFS data servers provide the ability to access vector spatial information via a remote connection. Although you can use 'Spatial Manager' User Data Sources (UDS) to access this type of servers, it is interesting to know that these servers return data in GML format

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User Data Sources (UDS) have been developed inside every product of the Spatial Manager™ suite mainly to access spatial databases and spatial stores, but they can also be used to access spatial data files including their own connection parameters Read more

The Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service Interface Standard (WFS) provides an interface allowing requests for geographical features across the web using platform-independent calls Read more

If you work in a corporate GIS environment, it is likely that you access spatial data stored in geospatial data servers such as PostGIS, SQL Server Spatial, etc. Read more