[mapserver-users] Allowing users to draw polygons on MapServer maps

[Lime, Steve D (DNR)]

Take a look at FeatureServer (or perhaps the WFS-T support in GeoServer or Tiny WFS). Such tools would facilitate the writing of geometries
to a data store (e.g. PostGIS) that MapServer could read from. Of course you could write your own tool to do that. We've used rails and serialized
geometries to/from OpenLayers as WKT easy enough.

Steve
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From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of David Jantzen [djantzen at ql2.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 6:13 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Allowing users to draw polygons on MapServer     maps

Hmm, this looks close to what I want:

http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/draw-feature.html

Any idea how I would export the polygons to a shapefile/database? What about loading them from a previous session?

Thanks,
David

On Jul 7, 2010, at 2:50 PM, <christopher.schmidt at nokia.com> <christopher.schmidt at nokia.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 7, 2010, at 5:19 PM, ext David Jantzen wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've never used MapServer before, so this is definitely a newbie question.  I've read a bunch of the documentation and FAQ, but I haven't yet found a clear answer to this question:
>>
>> Can I use MapServer to host a map, on which my clients can draw polygons and export them as shapefiles or into a database?  If not, is there another (open source) product that can?
>>
>> Seems like one of the scripting toolkits could do this, but not without significant custom front end work.
>
> I think this is approximately accurate. Personally, I would probably use
> GeoDjango/OpenLayers for this kind of task.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> Nokia
>

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