On Jul 7, 2010, at 5:19 PM, ext David Jantzen wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I've never used MapServer before, so this is definitely a newbie question.  
> I've read a bunch of the documentation and FAQ, but I haven't yet found a 
> clear answer to this question:
> 
> Can I use MapServer to host a map, on which my clients can draw polygons and 
> export them as shapefiles or into a database?  If not, is there another (open 
> source) product that can?
> 
> Seems like one of the scripting toolkits could do this, but not without 
> significant custom front end work.

I think this is approximately accurate. Personally, I would probably use
GeoDjango/OpenLayers for this kind of task. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Nokia

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