[mapserver-dev] Advanced Selection Management API

[Pavel Iacovlev]

Mapscript + PostGIS, it's easier to store/access/modify your
geometries inside a spatial database.
You can can highlight features using OpenLayers by creating a vector
geometry on top of your WMS/Mapserver layer.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> We have a customer for which there is a need for some more advanced selection management functionality.  The basic requirements are:
>
> * create a new selection from a set of features selected spatially or by some combination of attributes
> * save a named selection (serialize to disk file)
> * restore a previously saved selection (deserialize from disk file)
> * modify a selection by adding or removing features selected spatially or by some combination of attributes
> * highlight a selection when drawing using the CGI (like referencing a .qy file)
> * access features in the selection for other aspects of the application
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) is this achievable with the current setup?  I don't think so, the only way I can think to do this is to use mapscript to create shapefiles of selected features and manage selection as separate datasources and layers
>
> 2) is this something that would be desirable to have in mapserver/mapscript or should I just look at doing my own thing on the side?
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
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>   Paul Spencer
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>   DM Solutions Group Inc
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