RSS feeds and Cartoweb client questions

[Glenn Brooks]

HI,

I am working on distributing GIS attribute information (and some other non-spatial data) to a simple business intellegence/reporting dashboard.  The dashboard which will also include a transactional Cartoweb-Mapserver WMS/WFS for data entry into the underlying data bases.  Viewable by very non-technical people.

I would like to ask if anyone has explored outputting (or automatically updating) GIS layers from Postgis to  mapserver or cartoweb WFS clients using RSS feeds?  Is this practicable/more simple/or a nightmare?? It seems like it would be a

Also, would like to find more documentation about mapserver methods for connecting to Cartoweb and other clients- particularily how to decide whether and when Cartoweb/clients should request data layers directly from data sources then send to Mapserver, versus Mapserver connecting directly to Postgres/postgis or native formats. I am unsure how this should be organized. (The goal here is field-based browser based data editing ( ie create a new point in an existing layer, populate with attribute data- update the master database.  I get the transactional side from the user, just don't understand all the linkages between WFS-T and Mapserver)  

thanks much,

Glenn Brooks