Thank you for the suggestions everybody! I'm glad to see there are plenty of options. So far OpenLayers seems like a good choice, but I'll definitely take a look at these others.
On Jul 8, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Jan Hartmann wrote: > There is GeoMajas, but I have never looked at it: > > http://geomajas.org/ > > And there is the "Canvas" HTML element > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_element), something I am definitely > going to look into when I have time. See a few GIS-demos at > > http://www.canvasdemos.com/type/applications/maps-applications/ > > and the GnuPlot library, implemented in Canvas: > > http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/~merritt/gnuplot/canvas_demos/ > > Perhaps an idea for 3D-MapServer: > http://www.canvasdemos.com/type/applications/3d-applications/ > or from the 3D section of the GnuPlot library above. > > Jan > > On 07/08/10 04:53, Bob Basques wrote: >> David, >> >> You could go with something in GeoMoose as well. There is a demo >> available that includes drawing tools, you would need to set up your >> backend storage though on your own, with your tool of choice, but >> these get you half way there. You can see a couple of demo sites with >> drawing/edit tools already configured here: >> >> http://geomoose.org/info/demo.html >> >> Both of these demos are available as downloads as well. >> >> bobb >> >> >> >> On 7/7/2010 8:50 PM, David Jantzen wrote: >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
