Take a look at FeatureServer (or perhaps the WFS-T support in GeoServer or Tiny WFS). Such tools would facilitate the writing of geometries to a data store (e.g. PostGIS) that MapServer could read from. Of course you could write your own tool to do that. We've used rails and serialized geometries to/from OpenLayers as WKT easy enough.
Steve ________________________________________ From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of David Jantzen [djant...@ql2.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 6:13 PM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Allowing users to draw polygons on MapServer maps 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, <christopher.schm...@nokia.com> <christopher.schm...@nokia.com> 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 > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
