Exploring Demo requests

You learned that WMS, WFS, and WCS are standards describing the interaction among clients and servers. Each standard defines a set of operations that, from a client's point of view, are requests. On the OGC site, you can download detailed documents describing each admitted request. The demo application is a valuable tool to help you practice with requests. Let's explore some basic operations:

  1. Open the Demo requests application. From the drop-down list, you can select a set of prepared requests. They are listed with a syntax declaring the standard as a prefix and the standard's version as a suffix. Choose WFS_getCapabilities-1.1.xml. This is shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Click on the Submit button. A new panel ...

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