Thanks Steve, I'll check out those projects. I just did a proof of concept using the approach you describe with OpenLayers and WKT. Very nifty stuff. Any gotchas to that approach?
On Jul 7, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote: > 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: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Jantzen > [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 6:13 PM > To: [email protected] > 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, <[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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
