[mapserver-dev] MongoDB support?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 2/6/2013 2:06 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) wrote:
> Not something I've thought of. Options as I see it would be to:
>
>    - use mapscript. Presumably most scripting languages can access MongoDB.
>    - Write a native MapServer driver plugin...
>    - Wait for OGR support...

Hi Steve,

Yeah, this was my conclusion also. I wrote to Frank and suggested it 
would be useful to extent file support of ogr to allow access to 
<service>://... servers because then you could do something like open a 
CSV connection to http://example.com/myphp.php?args.. and PHP to make 
the querys and format the data to OGR for reading data. This would allow 
it to them be called from Mapserver. If you keep it simple this could be 
extremely useful for supporting all kinds of services that could not be 
support otherwise. This would work in OGR for CSV, GML, basically any 
text flat file reader that already exists in OGR today.

For now, I might write a trivial mapscript application to support my 
immediate needs.

There are a large number of these NOSQL databases popping up and being 
able to have some generic connection via scripting up a web service 
makes a lot of sense to me, beyond the immediate need that I have. I 
have already just dumped the some data to a text file and used that to 
create a shapefile to get some data into a map. But I really like the 
idea of some kind of universal glue like the above.

Thanks,
   -Steve

> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 10:13 AM
> To: mapserver-dev
> Subject: [mapserver-dev] MongoDB support?
>
> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone thought of adding support for MongoDB? I asked on the GDAL list if there was support via OGR.
>
> MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database, there are others and google around it seems that people have experimented with moving shapefiles in and out of it using python and ogr.
>
> Anyway, I'm trying to keep up with the technology and found that MongoDB actually has some basic spatial support built into it. Which got me to the point that I would like to be able to issue a query and pull points and attributes into a mapserver layer.
>
> Any thoughts on how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>     -Steve
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