2011

Table Of Contents
Once you have located the WFS data you want, determine the URL of the page
that serves the published layers. Often, this is not a standard web page that
you can open in a browser, but a page that has been programmed using a
scripting language such as CGI, PHP, or ASP. See the following for some
examples. You paste the address into the Data Connect window in AutoCAD
Map 3D to access the data on that page.
When you bring in features from a WFS data source, you can do the following:
Select the feature classes to include in your map.
Set conditions to limit the features in your map.
Reproject the data to the coordinate system of your map. Attribute data
may also be available for the WFS layers.
Style and theme features. You cannot edit features from a WFS data source.
Example WFS Data Sources
DescriptionWFS Data Source
Data layers such as boundaries, terrains,
physiography, utilities, and more.
http://demo.cubewerx.com/demo/cube-
serv/cubeserv.cgi?datastore=Foundation
Virginia, USA Census tracts, Congressional
districts, counties, interstates, POI, and
places.
http://regis.inter-
graph.com/wfs/dcmetro/request.asp?
NOTE For information on customizing this provider, refer to the FDO API Reference
and The Essential FDO.
Tell me more
Video
Show me how to bring in data from a
web server using WMS
Procedure
To bring in features from WFS (page
348)
To work with WFS data (page 582)
GIS Skill
Access data published on a public web
server
Bringing In Features from WFS | 347