KML output format?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Steve Lime wrote:
> I was thinking of something like this in a more general sense, that is
> being able to
> return a set of features from a query (even selection by bbox is really
> just a form
> of a query) through an OGR driver. That way you could support creating
> KML, Shapefiles
> or whatever OGR supports via MapScript, the CGI, WMS or WFS.
> 
> I don't think concentrating on just WMS, or just KML makes good sense.

Steve,

I do think a "package feature data in OGR supported file format" would
be interesting.  But it will be fairly hard to do since different vector
formats have a variety of quirky format specific issues.  I would think this
would be a new "class" of outputformat if we did it this way.

One thing to keep in mind is that generic OGR output will mostly not be
able to capture any representation information while for KML output I
think we can, and likely will want to apply mapserver's styling as far
as practical.  In this regard, it would be more like doing an SVG, or
flash output format.

Best regards,
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