RSS feeds and Cartoweb client questions

[Sean Gillies]

Glenn,

MapServer itself does not read in GeoRSS feeds yet, although I'm sure 
there are mapscript and XSLT + OGR based solutions deployed out there. 
I've written about one that uses a little bit of Python mapscript:

   http://zcologia.com/news/336/cartography-data-georss/

Speaking of feeds, there are a bunch of us experimenting with using the 
Atom Publishing Protocol as a replacement for WFS-T. The nexus for this 
discussion is

   http://groups.google.com/group/geo-web-rest

One live example is at

   http://labs.metacarta.com/atompub/app-demo.html

The displayed features are posted to FeatureServer using Atompub, not 
WFS-T. Another live example of GIS + Atompub is at

   http://zcologia.com/hammock/places.html

(I almost wrote "Feeds FTW" here, but that seemed a bit silly.)

Cheers,
Sean


Glenn Brooks wrote:
> 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
>