[Featureserver] Instant shp-uploading

[Lehtonen, Mika]

Hi Josh,

and thanks for your answer. I think the usage would be to upload a file 
or two or three per session and to use them as a reference in order to 
help in decision making. There are some predefined layers in OL (Google, 
WMS, WFS). These files would be quite static, anyway at the user level 
and thus it could be possible to upload once -  use multiple times. 
Though some sort of a delete function should be, but maybe that could be 
just an overwriting possibility.
The problem as I see it, is that I don't exactly know what and how many 
files the possible users will want to upload and how he/she wants them 
to be provided. But I will get more light on that matter in few days. 
Anyway, if I have understood right, there are no stereotypic users. So 
minimal static preparation can be done.

- mika -

Josh Livni kirjoitti:
> There are, as always, a variety of ways to do this.  One would be:
>  - Create a way for users to upload a shapefile and save it somewhere
>  - Modify the featureserver.cfg to have a new layer that points to the 
> new shapefile they uploaded
>  - Modify your openlayers JS to include a layer that points to the new 
> featureserver layer
>
> That said, without knowing more about your project or use-case (is it 
> the same layer, but users just occasionally upload a modified shape? 
>  Are there hundreds of new layers a day being uploaded?  Do users need 
> to delete layers?  ) it's a little hard to give any good advice...
>
>   -Josh
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Lehtonen, Mika <mika at digikartta.net 
> <mailto:mika at digikartta.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I am new to this list and for starters I was going to ask a quick
>     question about using shp-files in FeatureServer/OpenLayers.
>
>     Is it possible with these software to build a service where the
>     end-user
>     could upload a shp-file into FeatureServer and after that use it
>     through
>     OpenLayers? And I mean with that simple without any special
>     knowledge on
>     GIS or shape filer or so.
>
>     - mika -
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