<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Le 20 févr. 2015 à 23:24, Daniel Morissette a écrit :</div><div><br></div><div>Hi Daniel,</div><div><br></div><div>(back from a short holidays, afk)</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>While I can appreciate Olivier's design goals, I can also see the HUGE value provided by OGR support in TinyOWS for lots of users, </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not agree on this too, as i keep not seeing any value on this :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dunno guys if you spent time to read WFS and FE specifications ?</div><div>It's plainly a Web Service designed to be put in front of a real spatial database.</div><div>By design.</div><div><br></div><div>So it doesn't have a single chance to work well in front of a flat file (as a shapefile for instance)</div><div>or in front of a poor featured spatial database (like MSSQL Server or MySQL).</div><div><br></div><div>The only target, for now, if we keep a light and efficient WS layer, as TinyOWS, </div><div>are PostGIS, SpatiaLite and Oracle Spatial.</div><div><br></div><div>And don't look for an another one.</div><div>Every one else would imply a lot of additional code, and won't be efficient at all.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And by the way, who still care to use something else than a spatial database anymore ?</div><div>Hey we are in 2015 ! </div><div>:)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>But if you really really want to interface with a flat file, you could do it nicely with:</div><div>current TinyOWS + current PostgreSQL/PostGIS + your own FDW to target whatever you like.</div><div>(and you could even use OGR inside if you want it !)</div><div><br></div><div>And Paul and Even are already working on:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-ogr-fdw">https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-ogr-fdw</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>
<div><div>--</div><div>Olivier Courtin</div><div>Oslandia</div></div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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