Notice that it is possible to upload shapefiles to the geoserver directly via the experimental REST interface. It might be worth exploring that route.
Simone. ------------------------------------------------------- Eng. Simone Giannecchini GeoSolutions S.A.S. Owner - Software Engineer Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://simboss.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini ------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Ivan Grcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
