Hi, maybe after user uploads the file, you just run shp2pgsql that uploads it into PostGis and u displays it inside OL with little bit of filtering (for en example CQL_FILTER=shpfilename=name That is one of the simpliest solutions i could come up in 1 minute...
Regards, Ivan On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Lehtonen, Mika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be glad if I could get someone's opinion on the following matter: > > This is also business related, which I guess is a little unusual in this > list. I won't be carrying on these questions, forgive me this. The > innermost is still technical. > > My client has a light WebGIS system which has been carried out with > Openlayers, GeoServer and PostGIS as a backend. Now he would want me to > build an extension to his system where end-users could upload their own > shp-files into it. Just upload and start to use them, that simple. I > guess the shps' are mainly points, and quite simple. The end-users are > ordinary PC-users, so no complicated phases can be accepted. > > We are having a huge gorge between our thoughts of how much this would > take hours to implement. My client claims that this is a matter of > adding a simple layer into their system and that's why it couldn't > possibly take more than a day or two at most. And in that case, it's > better be perfect. I said, on the other hand, that I could build > something in a week, that would fulfil the most of the demand, but that > I'm not sure yet if this is something that is feasible. > > So, what do you think? Any ideas what would be the best approach in > order to carry out this? > > > - mika - > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Ivan Grcic _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
