I am new to all kinds of GIS software. Due to my project I need to open WFS site which needs a WFS standard 1.1.0. I tried to do it with MapInfo Professional 11.5, but it wont open it. I found a solution from the internet which told me to put ?request=getCapabilities&version=1.1.0 in the end of my WFS URL, but it gives me an error " Unable to get capabilities from the server " Do I have to download any add-ons to MapInfo 11.5? Or can anybody suggest me some other programs to get this link to work?
[GIS] Problem accessing WFS 1.1.0 with Mapinfo
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For WFS requests with BBOX you need minimum MapInfo v11.5.2 and your WFS service needs to be v1.1.0
- Open new mapper window and zoom in area of interest (this would be approx. bbox coordinates)
- Open Web Service/Open WFS...
- Choose your server
- Now you're in Open WFS Table window. Choose a table.
- Click on Row Filter... in Data Filters section of that window
- Now you're in Row Picker window. Choose your column that represent geometry objects (SP_GEOMETRY for example). After that you will get a list of operators and choose ogc:BBOX. Value will be CURRENT_MAPPER which is what we want , OK ? If you have selected some polygon feature in a first step, you will also have SELECTION as a value (then BBOX is calculated from selected polygon).
After this all you need is to do few OK's and that is it.
Also please note that WFS service could be limited (for example: maximum number of features returned is 500).
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Your answer is still little bit ambiguos. Did I understood correctly, that WFS service supports only 1.1.0, but MapInfo supports only 1.0.0?
There is service=WFS missing in your request string. Open those two URL-s in browser, what do you get?
http://url.to.your.serice?request=getCapabilities&version=1.1.0&service=WFS http://url.to.your.serice?request=getCapabilities&version=1.0.0&service=WFS
For testing (if you are stuck with MapInfo), you can download Quantum GIS (http://www.qgis.org/), it supports WFS.