Feature Service

Description

The Feature Service provides the ability to search spatial databases. It provides a set of common operations that you can use to query content, regardless of the underlying data provider. The advantage of this is that you can run the exact same operation against many different content stores (such as a native TAB file, an Oracle database table, or a SQL Server database table) by specifying different named tables; the same query will work on each table type.

The Feature Service provides operations that:

• list all tables in the catalog
• describe specific tables in the catalog
• search within a distance
• search intersects
• search within a polygon
• search for the nearest feature
• search using a custom MapInfo SQL query

Service URLs

The URL endpoint for the REST implementation of the Feature Service has the following general form:

 http://server:port/rest/Spatial/FeatureService 

The URL endpoint for the SOAP implementation of the Feature Service has the following general form:

 http://server:port/soap/FeatureService 

The URL for the Feature Service WSDL document has the following general form:

 http://server:port/soap/FeatureService?wsdl 

The URL for the Feature Service demo page has the following general form:

 http://server:port/Spatial/FeatureService/DemoPage.html 

Documentation

To see the full documentation for the Feature Service, see the Services section in the Spectrum Technology Platform Spectrum Spatial Guide.