WFS for the masses: adding support for paging and sorting in GeoServer
Today we are going to introduce you our latest contribution to GeoServer, WFS paging and sorting for retrieving features.First off, let's take a step back and see what sorting and paging support is available in the official OGC protocols:Neither WMS 1.1 nor WMS 1.3 (or SLD/SE for that matter), have any ability to order the results so that features are painted in a certain order. If features can be organized in categories filters and FeatureTypeStyle elements can do the trick, but that won't work over continous fieldsSame goes for WPS 1.0, which can return significant amounts of vector data that...
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