<div dir="ltr">Thought you might be interested in this:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/">http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div style>
Umberto</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woodbri@swoodbridge.com" target="_blank">woodbri@swoodbridge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 2/6/2013 2:06 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) wrote:<br>
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Not something I've thought of. Options as I see it would be to:<br>
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- use mapscript. Presumably most scripting languages can access MongoDB.<br>
- Write a native MapServer driver plugin...<br>
- Wait for OGR support...<br>
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Hi Steve,<br>
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Yeah, this was my conclusion also. I wrote to Frank and suggested it would be useful to extent file support of ogr to allow access to <service>://... servers because then you could do something like open a CSV connection to <a href="http://example.com/myphp.php?args" target="_blank">http://example.com/myphp.php?<u></u>args</a>.. and PHP to make the querys and format the data to OGR for reading data. This would allow it to them be called from Mapserver. If you keep it simple this could be extremely useful for supporting all kinds of services that could not be support otherwise. This would work in OGR for CSV, GML, basically any text flat file reader that already exists in OGR today.<br>
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For now, I might write a trivial mapscript application to support my immediate needs.<br>
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There are a large number of these NOSQL databases popping up and being able to have some generic connection via scripting up a web service makes a lot of sense to me, beyond the immediate need that I have. I have already just dumped the some data to a text file and used that to create a shapefile to get some data into a map. But I really like the idea of some kind of universal glue like the above.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
-Steve<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Steve<br>
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Subject: [mapserver-dev] MongoDB support?<br>
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Hi All,<br>
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Has anyone thought of adding support for MongoDB? I asked on the GDAL list if there was support via OGR.<br>
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MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database, there are others and google around it seems that people have experimented with moving shapefiles in and out of it using python and ogr.<br>
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Anyway, I'm trying to keep up with the technology and found that MongoDB actually has some basic spatial support built into it. Which got me to the point that I would like to be able to issue a query and pull points and attributes into a mapserver layer.<br>
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Any thoughts on how to do this?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
-Steve<br>
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