On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmer...@pobox.com> wrote: > P Kishor wrote: >> >> I have been using MapServer for sometime now, but doing really simple >> things with it... read in mostly Pg, Shapefile and raster data, and >> output mostly images via regular CGI or WMS. >> >> One thing that GeoServer seems to do very well is provide easy output >> to a variety of formats -- GeoJSON, images, features, KML, a whole lot >> more. >> >> What are MapServer's capabilities in this regard? Ideally, my >> application would return the requested format based on the URI. So, >> given http://server/mapserv/wms/ would return WMS. If I replace "wms" >> with "kml" I would get back KML, or replace it with "geojson" and get >> back GeoJSON, etc. >> >> Is there a tutorial or documentation on this that someone can point me to? > > Puneet, > > This fall, in trunk, I have extended MapServer's WFS GetFeature request > to support returning formats supported by OGR. It requires some setup > in the mapfile to enable it. To the extent that helps you might want > to review: > > http://mapserver.org/trunk/output/ogr_output.html
Thanks! I didn't even think OGR. This is great news. Now, OGR is mostly for reading data, and not usually, as I understand, for writing data. I am assuming that when the above is implemented, MS will support writing out to all the formats that OGR support writing out to, no? Is there a list of formats that OGR can write out to? The formats I see at http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html seem to be for reading only, no? > > Note that this is only in trunk. > Is this scheduled for version 6 of MS? > Best regards, > -- > ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- > I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, > warmer...@pobox.com > light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam > and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent > > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
