[mapserver-users] Edit mode in mapserver

Blaise bpicinbono at worldonline.fr
Fri Feb 20 12:12:23 PST 2009


Hi there,

Hopefully, it IS possible to edit features with MapServer / MapScript. You 
have to write your own functions. It works great.

Regards
Blaise

On Friday 20 February 2009 21:04, Alexandre Dube wrote:
> Hi Rohan,
>
>   It is not possible to "edit" features with MapServer.  You might want
> to take a look at one of theses projects that can : GeoServer, TinyOWS,
> FeatureServer.
>
>   In a small demo I wrote, I use MapServer as my WMS server to render
> images and TinyOWS as my WFS server to return GML and to do my
> transactional stuff ( insert/update/delete ) and finally OpenLayers as
> my client UI.  Both MapServer and TinyOWS read the "road" data from a
> PostGIS database ( required with TinyOWS ).  See the demo below (1).
>
>   Hope this gives you some clues/ideas for your project.
>
>   Regards,
>
> Alexandre
>
> (1) http://dev4.mapgears.com/bdga/bdgaWFS-T.html
> (2)
> http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/topp/wfs/examples/wfs-protocol-transactio
>ns.html
>
> rohan phatak wrote:
> > Hello Friends,
> > I am using Mapserver Application Gmap in which .map file is using. I
> > am trying to develop "Information System" & I want to publish these
> > map to other computers & i want to give 'edit' mode for user means if
> > user see any new feature then he can insert point/line/polygon data in
> > it with attribute information. ( the relationship is like Server-Client)
> > So how to do this??
> > 1. Is PHP/ mapscript will useful    Or
> > 2. Is there any inbuilt  application to do these??
> > at a time only one user can use edit mode.
> > thanks a lot !!
> >
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