Project: QGIS

Version: 2.16.0

Feature: Massive improvements to WFS Provider

QGIS 2.16 brings an overhaul of the WFS provider, including

  • Version autodetection
  • On-disk caching of downloaded features
  • Background download and progressive rendering
  • WFS 1.1 and 2.0 support
  • WFS 2.0 GetFeature paging
  • Add provider tests
  • Support for WFS 2.0 joins
  • URI parameter with sql with SELECT / FROM / JOIN / WHERE / ORDER BY clauses
  • Handle DateTime fields
  • Enable "Only request features overlapping the view extent" by default (and memorize the settings)
  • Support for additional/mixed geometry types (CurvePolygon, CompoundCurve)
  • More tolerance for non-conforming WFS servers

This feature was funded by Land Information New Zealand and Canton of Zug, Switzerland

This feature was developed by Even Rouault