feedback on possible mapserver enhancements

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:24:13PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Daniel Morissette wrote:
> >Steve Lime wrote:
> >>Good suggestions Arnulf. I too think a WFS-T-lite makes good sense.
> >
> >Without having done much research, I like that idea as well.
> >
> >Daniel
> 
> I would like to add my +1 to having some type of WFS-T support within 
> mapserver.
> 
> My basic use-case would be something like using OpenLayers with 
> mapserver serving images, and want to be able to support simple point, 
> line, polygon, box, circle like objects that can be displayed, created, 
> edited using OpenLayers vector support, and saved these back to a 
> postgis database? without the need to install and manage any additional 
> major applications, like geoserver, featureserver, etc.

Note that WFS-T doesn't get you this: OpenLayers has no support for
writing modified data out as WFS-T by default. (Also note that
FeatureServer has no support for WFS-T, because it's extremely complex
in comparison to serving data as WFS.) 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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