[mapserver-users] MapServer output

[Lime, Steve D (DNR)]

I believe Frank's work extends beyond WFS as well to standard MapServer queries, or if that's not possible yet it can be. 

Remember also that you have query templates at your disposal which can be used to generate any number of text-based formats.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 12:19 PM
To: P Kishor
Cc: Mapserver-users
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] MapServer output

P Kishor wrote:
>>  http://mapserver.org/trunk/output/ogr_output.html
> 
> Thanks! I didn't even think OGR. This is great news. Now, OGR is
> mostly for reading data, and not usually, as I understand, for writing
> data. I am assuming that when the above is implemented, MS will
> support writing out to all the formats that OGR support writing out
> to, no?

Puneet,

Well, there are likely some exceptions that aren't useful for this
purpose.  For instance, OGR can write to PostGIS but it is hard to
stream the resulting dataset back over http.

> Is there a list of formats that OGR can write out to? The formats I
> see at http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html seem to be for reading
> only, no?

If that list says "Creation - Yes" then you have a good chance of being
able to use it with WFS - GetFeature.

>> Note that this is only in trunk.
>>
> 
> Is this scheduled for version 6 of MS?

Yes, it will be in MapServer 6.

Is is already completely implemented and available for use from trunk
nightly snapshots or svn.

Best regards,
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