Hmm, this looks close to what I want:

http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/draw-feature.html

Any idea how I would export the polygons to a shapefile/database? What about 
loading them from a previous session?

Thanks,
David

On Jul 7, 2010, at 2:50 PM, <[email protected]> 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 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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