[Geomoose-users] Editing in GeoMoose

[Bistrais, Bob]

Interesting.  Thanks for the clarification, Dan.

From: Dan Little [mailto:danlittle at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:19 AM
To: Bistrais, Bob; geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Editing in GeoMoose

Bob,

That's not true.  GeoMoose supports editing via WFS-T, it does not dictate the source of the WFS-T.  The provider of the WFS-T service dictates the underlying data source.  For GeoServer, there are a litany of database to which it is perfectly happy to connect.  I specifically said *databases* because editing a file is really not a good idea.  There exist a few reasons for this but the most important is probably dealing with concurrency.  I tend to use GeoServer for WFS-T testing and implementation because it's really damn easy.  (Download, create start up script, win.)

Files, natively, don't have a good way of handling what happens when two users do something to the file at the same time.  If both you and I both changed the shape of a polygon, or a label, or other attribute, at the same time, there's no good way for a file to resolve these changes.  A server might be able to do some good work to make this type of operation work but I'd highly suggest AVOIDING using a multi-user file-based system.  The generally accepted method is to make something similar to a PostGIS database and offer exports to Shapefiles.

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From: "Bistrais, Bob" <Bob.Bistrais at maine.gov<mailto:Bob.Bistrais at maine.gov>>
To: "geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org>" <geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org>>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:38 PM
Subject: [Geomoose-users] Editing in GeoMoose

I was reading the documentation on editing features in GeoMoose 2.6.  Now, I’ll declare that I did see that only PostGIS data is supported.  That being said, is it possible (and has anyone successfully done so) to edit other data formats.  Specifically, shapefiles, or perhaps ESRI Geodatabases?

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