[mapserver-users] GeoJSON output from MapServer

[Dejan.Gambin at pula.hr]

Steve,

Here are more details, I am sure you'll have some further suggestions:

There is a project called GeoReport, part of GeoBI suite, that integrates 
the data coming from Business Intelligence processes (Pentaho BI) with 
their cartographic representation. Since I am pretty much involved in both 
areas (WebGIS, BI), this seems very interesting to me, although I first 
saw it yesterday :-(

Here are the main informations about GeoReport: 
http://www.geobi.org/2009/01/georeport-module.html

As I can see, basically, there is a MapOL module that runs BI process in 
order to get resultset, join it with geometries coming from GeoServer 
(WFS) and returns GeoJSON data to WebGIS client (MapFish and OpenLayers + 
Geostat widgets) which displays it on the map.

I have been in contact with Fabio (he is "responsible" for all this). 
Based on what he said, I understood (maybe wrongly) that WFS server needs 
to return GeoJSON, and GeoServer can do it. Now, as I write this to you, 
it seems like MapOL is responsible for creating GeoJSON data ?!

Anyway, I am new to this almost as you and if you can take a look on above 
link, I would appreciate it very much. I "only" want to use MapServer 
instead of GeoServer. If I can't do it, then I'll rather do nothing as I 
have no intentions to use anything but MapServer :-)

thanks very much

regards, dejan

"Steve Lime" <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote on 01.07.2009 16:36:48:

> Depends on how you need to access it. You certainly can create a 
> template that will output GeoJSON. However,
> at the moment you can only access that output though calls to the 
> CGI and (probably) MapScript. WMS and WFS
> do not recognize the template output format although there are plans
> to do so in the upcoming release.
> 
> Let me know if I can help further...
> 
> Steve
> 
> >>> On 7/1/2009 at 7:44 AM, in message
> <OF425313EF.2215E677-ONC12575E6.004595DF-C12575E6.00460800 at pula.hr>,
> <Dejan.Gambin at pula.hr> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is it possible to use GeoJSON template for getting GeoJSON output from 

> > MapServer? I have tried using outputformat as described in:
> > 
> > http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-36.html and
> > http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-56.html 
> > 
> > Is it supported at all? I have a project where I need a GeoJSON 
output. 
> > This project originally uses GeoServer whcih has a plugin for this. Is 

> > this possible with MapServer? I am using MapServer 5.4.1
> > 
> > thanks very much
> > 
> > regards, dejan
> 
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