WFS in Bentley Map creates strange Cells for regions with holes

Re: WFS in Bentley Map creates strange Cells for regions with holes

Martin Roy — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:32:04 GMT

Hi Erik. Microstation doesn't really care, a "polygon" can be drawn many different ways. The simplest form would be a shape element if there are no holes for example. For Bentley Map, a Polygon Collection is what you should really have so all seems good now.

A note on the authentication: When you type the username and password in the connection dialog, these are used to negotiate the authentication with the web server. If the WFS server requires the user and password as URL parameters, it's because it doesn't use the IIS (or other web server) HTTP authentication method, it uses its own internal authentication.

Happy to see it works now.

Martin

Re: WFS in Bentley Map creates strange Cells for regions with holes

wirring — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:14:56 GMT

Hi Martin

Wierd things truely!. Yesterday I had some troubles making the connection to Kortforsyningen, and when I susscced I got that strange result.

Today when you asked for the connection information I had problems again until I stoped placing the login and password in the dialog box, and instead added those into the url. Then everything connected smooth and nice.

So here is the url. I know that Bentley has got a login and password for Kortforsyningen for testing. I cannot write them here (I am sure Keith have them)

http://kortforsyningen.kms.dk/service?servicename=mat_gml2&service=WFS&version=1.0.0&login=####&password=****

But most strange!

Today I get nice Polygon elements !!! just as it should be !!

I thought of something -how does a polygon element look like for a normal MicroStation? like an ophan cell with shapes ??

Thanks anyway

I will keep on testing

Regards

Erik

Re: WFS in Bentley Map creates strange Cells for regions with holes

Martin Roy — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:36:15 GMT

First of all, thanks for the good words Erik. I agree this looks like a weird result. I'm afraid the only way for us to understand what happened will be to connect to that WFS server and see what we get back for that particular object. I presume I can find the region to query from the attached dgn. Can you give us the necessary information to connect to the WFS server ?

Thanks,

Martin