[mapserver-users] Edit database attribute

[E Perik]

Thanks Puneet and Steffen,

as you both state 'standard' mapserver + mapscript could easily do the
trick. 'Problem' in this case is, if someone else needs to edit the data
the have the complete 'source' in their hands. If this could be
'secured' or 'encrypted' I would be helped out at first, but no clue as
how to do that.

My intention was/is to have a standalone application and for that
MapObjects is a nice start.

Frank Koormann and associates are working on Thuban, which is a very
promising multi-platform viewer, and as I understood Editing attributes
would be one of it's features. However this is still in development.

MapObjects is definitely pricy for creating just that one purpose
application (viewer+editor) but can be changed to one's likings easily.
As VB is not the problem here, I had a go at that one. All looks very
nice, but again,.... editing attributes seems to be the problem. Not
mentioned in samples at all and not found any info regarding it.

Did have a look at ArcPad, but it's too restricted for editing.

Any other recommendations besides the ones described earlier are more
then welcome,...... :-)

Erwin



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Puneet
Kishor
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 12:24 AM
To: E Perik
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Edit database attribute

Erwin,


On Saturday, May 4, 2002, at 12:58  PM, E Perik wrote:

>
> * load layer (shapefile)
> * select item (polygon or point)
> * edit selected item's dbase-value's
>


if you simply want to edit the dbase values, what's stopping you from 
using PHP or Perl, both of which can easily read and write dbase files.

As long as are not wanting to delete a shape, editing dbase files is 
trivial. Use Mapserver to select a shape, view its dbase data, edit 'em,

write 'em back out again.



>
> As it needs to be a stand alone application, MapObjects is very
> suitable.

keep in mind that MapObjects is not free. In fact, it is rather 
expensive.

>
> Does anyone have some experience with editing database values of
shapes
> / points / annotations with MapObjects or any 'tool' ?

keep in mind also that MapObjects requires messing around with VB (ugh).

pk/