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

[Bob Basques]

David,

You could go with something in GeoMoose as well.  There is a demo 
available that includes drawing tools, you would need to set up your 
backend storage though on your own, with your tool of choice, but these 
get you half way there.  You can see a couple of demo sites with 
drawing/edit tools already configured here:

http://geomoose.org/info/demo.html

Both of these demos are available as downloads as well.

bobb



On 7/7/2010 8:50 PM, David Jantzen wrote:
> 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
>> ________________________________________
>> 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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