Although since the first versions of 'Spatial Manager' has been possible to access WFS (Web Feature Service) servers, until now this has been done through two data providers based on FDO and OGR. Recently, a native WFS data provider has been added in the application, offering more advantages and features
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
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
