Hello Jim,
This is no out of the box functionality, but I would solve this as follows:
You build some sort of webservice that responds to an AJAX request by:
A) //- Website functions ---//
1) - Taking the bounding box, the users e-mail and the selected layers
as parameters
2) - Doing some business logic to tell if the request is valid
3) - Storing the request including the users e-mail and the boundingbox
and the layers that the user selected (in a table in the postgres
database for instance)
4)- return an AJAX response telling the user that:
- His request is added to the que
- He will recieve the dataset per e-mail
B) //- Server batch ---//
1) You build a script on the server that
- looks at the postgres table for pending requests
- loops the requested layers doing a geo-select (postGIS function)
- Export the selection to shape using ogr2ogr or psql2shp
- zip the shapes
- mail them.
Hope this is helpfull for you.
Kind regards,
Milo
Fawcett, David schreef:
You might want to look at http://deli.dnr.state.mn.us/data_search.html
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Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 3:13 PM
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Subject: [mapserver-users] clip and zip server
We have implemented a mapserver site that allows users to create an
area of interest. Next, we want to let the user select some layers and
then clip the layers to the AOI, zip them, put the zip file on an ftp
server, and send an e-mail when they are ready. This should be done on a
second server from the main mapserver server.
Would appreciate any suggestions from anyone who has done something
similar or who has any ideas how this is best done. Original mapserver
site is in PHP and prefer that or Python for the second server.
Thanks,
Jim
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