Map file content partially or completely read from database

[Aaron Koning]

Check out mapsstorer: http://www.mapstorer.org/
Also checkout maplab (although I don't think it has been updated in a
while): http://www.maptools.org/maplab/

Aaron


On 4/25/06, Carlo Tronnberg <temp at chello.hu> wrote:
>
> Dear List!
>
> I got the task to implement a web user management system where each user
> can access a customized map server and modify some of the map settings.
> There are different groups and roles in each group. Some are local
> administrators for their groups and can create and modify the privileges and
> the basic settings of the map server for their users. All users can
> modify/customize their own settings and save them in the database.
>
> For this reason I estimate the only way is to solve this through a
> database. Since I am already using PostgreSQL for my PostGIS layers, the
> choice of database is trivial.
>
> The user will have to login before he/she can access the system, thus the
> user is known at loading the map files.
>
> Question: Has anyone created such a system to read some (or all) data from
> a database to memory instead of the map file? If so, how could this be done?
>
> I hope somebody can help me with this.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Carlo Trönnberg
>



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