[Mapserver-users] Appending a shapefile

[Palle Due Larsen]

It is implemented in Perl Mapscript. I use for adding shapes. It is also
possible to implement a simple type of locking, so that only one user
can update at a time. 

Best regards

Palle Due Larsen
Carl Bro as
-----Original Message-----
From: "Stepan Kafka" <stepan.kafka at centrum.cz>
To: <dylan at visit27.com>, <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:21:02 +0200
Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] Appending a shapefile

> You can use ms_newShapefileObj function with type = -2 (see
> documentation).
> I use it frequently to add new shapes (point, line, poly) to
> shapefile.
> Remember, you have to add new record to dbase by your own! It work
> well in
> PHP-mapscript, I don't know, if it is implemented in other languages.
> 
> Stepan Kafka
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> > -----Pùvodní zpráva-----
> > Od: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > [mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu]za uživatele Dylan
> > Rawlins
> > Odesláno: 3. dubna 2003 12:55
> > Komu: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Pøedmìt: [Mapserver-users] Appending a shapefile
> >
> >
> > I need to find a way of creating a shapefile that allows users to
> > add points
> > to the file as well as attribute information that is collected
> > from a form.
> > I have managed to set it all up and it works fine except that it
> > only allows
> > one point (the latest one) to be stored. What I need to be able to
> do is
> > append to the theme rather than re-create it every time.
> >
> > What I am doing at the moment is storing each x and y coord in
> > the dbf file
> > as it is added - along with other attribute info.  Then when the
> > user clicks
> > a point on the map I run a loop through the dbf file. The loop
> reads each
> > record and re-creates each point. Once the loop is finished I
> > create the new
> > point that has just been clicked and at the same time I update
> > the dbf  file
> > with the new point's x and y etc. This is a bit messy but it works.
> >
> > Is there any better way of doing this?
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Dylan
> >
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