[mapserver-users] OUTPUTFORMAT shapefiles instead of GML2/GML3 withWFS?

[Kralidis,Tom [Ontario]]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of 
> Maarten Plieger
> Sent: Tuesday, 02 December 2008 07:25
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapserver-users] OUTPUTFORMAT shapefiles instead of 
> GML2/GML3 withWFS?
> 
> Hi all,
> Is it possible to configure mapserver in such a way that it 
> returns shapefiles instead of GML from a WFS GetFeature request?

Not that I know of.  Not out of the box.

> I would like to be able to output in GML2, GML3 and 
> shapefiles... GML2 and GML3 work fine.
> 
> The problem is that my GML files get very big, up to 60 
> megabytes, and my client applications (like ArcGIS) do not 
> handle that very well.
> 

Options:

- would compressing (gzip/zip) help at all?
- you could write a mapscript WxS wrapper (see
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wxs_mapscript) to intercept a
GetFeature request (say, catching outputformat=shape), and transform the
GML response to a shapefile.

I'm guessing folks have done similar things w.r.t. shapefile
clip/download functionality.

..Tom


> Thank you,
> Maarten Plieger
>