feedback on possible mapserver enhancements

[Steve Lime]

Maybe folks just want some FeatureServer-like functionality... (yes, I know that's already been written too)

Steve

>>> On 2/5/2008 at 1:56 PM, in message <20080205195619.GA5054 at alta.metacarta.com>,
Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at METACARTA.COM> wrote:
> 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,