Question about editing gis data using mapserver

Gregor Mosheh gregor at HOSTGIS.COM
Sun Apr 8 23:53:30 EDT 2007


> I have a question about editing GIS data. Can I change the shp or data in
> postgis using mapserver ? For example, I click the map on my browser then
> change some data and submit it back to be saved on database or file, cause
> it seems there is no editing example in the mapserver package.

I don't think that Mapserver directly supports editing. Typically, I
either edit the data in PostGIS (since most of our data is there) or would
write up something using PHP-OGR (a OGR interface for PHP) to edit a
shapefile.

Hope that helps...



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