- Complicated protocol and xml schema required for implementation
- Not very restful
e.g. - GET example.com/service?SERVICE=WCS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetCoverage
- Instead of GET example.com/service/wcs/1.0.0/coverage? - No clear definition of coverage re. collection, granule, variable
- No Asynchronous behavior
- Support for in-place staging of results is limited (&store=yes)
No support for subset by polygon / Shapefile
GetCapabilities and DescribeCapabilities do not scale well
(but perhaps we don't implement at first...)
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