question about WFS

[Gregor Mosheh]

John B. Churchill wrote:

 > I found a note on the Mapserver documentation which says that WFS-T is
 > not supported by Mapserver.  I suppose what I'm describing is
 > something  that requires a "transaction" and that I won't be able to
 > do this with Mapserver.

Yep. Mapserver's WFS capability is read-only.


>     One of the things I wanted to be able to do with the Mapserver WFS 
> server that I've set up is allow people to add individual layers into 
> their GIS software that they can then save

Yes, that's what the interoperability plugin was supposed to do, provide 
a bridge to PostGIS. It sounds like just what you want. Are you unable 
to install it, or is your ArcGIS too old, or what?

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