Web Data - What do you want?

Searching for your thoughts - Kristin Warry, Swindon Borough Council, LPS SIG web coordinator.

More and more suppliers want to offer Web Map or Feature Services - this gives Raster or vector data respectively from the web instead of you storing and translating yourself. In Swindon we have found that good WMS feeds can drastically reduce screen refresh rates. This is brilliant for digitising.

However, we are usually stuck with what the suppliers offer, and this may not be the optimum set up. Therefore I want your opinions on what you actually want from a WMS/WFS feed. Personally, I think I would like separate layers for rasters to set my own zooms, as I use a laptop sometimes. I also think I would like to split Mastermap into part WMS and only have the bits I trace as a WFS to keep the speed optimal. I would also like to have grayscale options. 

I also would like to dump all of my base data holdings for web services, just keeping the new vectormap local in case of emergency or disaster response. This means simply setting up blank tables to remap to if we want to still use our workspaces on mapinfo in the rare event of web outage.

How does this sound to you? - do you have different requirements? please comment to let us know.