[mapserver-users] Allowing users to draw polygons on MapServer maps

[David Jantzen]

Hmm, this looks close to what I want:

http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/draw-feature.html

Any idea how I would export the polygons to a shapefile/database? What about loading them from a previous session?

Thanks,
David

On Jul 7, 2010, at 2:50 PM, <christopher.schmidt at nokia.com> <christopher.schmidt at nokia.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 7, 2010, at 5:19 PM, ext David Jantzen wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I've never used MapServer before, so this is definitely a newbie question.  I've read a bunch of the documentation and FAQ, but I haven't yet found a clear answer to this question:
>> 
>> Can I use MapServer to host a map, on which my clients can draw polygons and export them as shapefiles or into a database?  If not, is there another (open source) product that can?
>> 
>> Seems like one of the scripting toolkits could do this, but not without significant custom front end work.
> 
> I think this is approximately accurate. Personally, I would probably use
> GeoDjango/OpenLayers for this kind of task. 
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
> Nokia
>