Louvy Joseph wrote:
Hi,
I am newbie to the GIS.
Are there any plans for supporting WFS-T in mapserver? I realize that
mapserver supports WFS server feature but I am looking for the ability
to write back to WFS server. If not, what are the non-mapserver
opensource components which have support for WFS-T? Any ideas appreciated.
Louvy,
There is no support for WFS-T in MapServer, and no plans I am aware of to
add it. In fact, I think it would be a poor fit for a couple reasons:
o MapServer's current feature model is read-only, and adding write would
be quite a bit of work.
o MapServer has a rather "weakly typed" feature model - at least as
regards attributes, and this doesn't very naturally support update.
In fact, I think it moderately hurts the usefulness of the readonly
WFS for some applications.
GeoServer is the premiere open source WFS-T implementation. I think
the Deegree folks also have a WFS-T though I don't know much about it.
Best regards,
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