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

[David Jantzen]

Thanks Steve, I'll check out those projects.  I just did a proof of concept using the approach you describe with OpenLayers and WKT.  Very nifty stuff.  Any gotchas to that approach?

On Jul 7, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:

> 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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> 
> 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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