[mapserver-users] Add points to a online map? (FWD)

[Searle Ross]

Paul and Twan,

We have used PostGIS to do just this, without using any mapscripting
just a bit of javascript and perl. This was actually the reason we
started using this great piece of software. The user clicks on the map
and the javascript works out the real world coords and pops up a form.
Info is entered and then added to postgres via an insert using perl.
Next time you view the map the point is there large as life. Sorry I
can't show you the site but it is inside our firewall.

Regards
Ross


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at refractions.net]
Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 3:39 AM
To: teb
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; twan at twansoft.com
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Add points to a online map? (FWD)


Yes. You might find one way to do this is to use PostGIS to store the
point layer. Jeff is actually putting together a little
Mapserver/PostGIS app right now to do exactly this. All the background
layers are shape files, but the point layer is a db layer, so it is very
easy to add new points to it and edit it. Needless to say, mapscript
coding is definately required. You could also do this using a shape file
to store the points, but could have file integrity problems if you were
ever unlucky enough to get two concurrent edits of the file.

teb wrote:
> Is it possible that a visitor of our website adds a point to our
online map
> and also add specific information about the point? Will this change
(adding
> a point) be directly visible on the map?

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