[mapserver-users] MapServer output

[P Kishor]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 12:38 PM, P Kishor wrote:
>>
>> I have been using MapServer for sometime now, but doing really simple
>> things with it... read in mostly Pg, Shapefile and raster data, and
>> output mostly images via regular CGI or WMS.
>>
>> One thing that GeoServer seems to do very well is provide easy output
>> to a variety of formats -- GeoJSON, images, features, KML, a whole lot
>> more.
>>
>> What are MapServer's capabilities in this regard? Ideally, my
>> application would return the requested format based on the URI. So,
>> given http://server/mapserv/wms/ would return WMS. If I replace "wms"
>> with "kml" I would get back KML, or replace it with "geojson" and get
>> back GeoJSON, etc.
>>
>> Is there a tutorial or documentation on this that someone can point me to?
>>
>
> FYI, there are a lot of changes coming in the rendering code as part of 6.0.
> I don't have the RFC's handy, but you might want to start looking at that.
>

Thanks. I saw some of the RFCs (58 deals with KML). The ones I saw, as
you note above, reference MS 6.0. Other than OGC stuff (WMS, WFS),
does this imply that as is, MapServer can't "render" data into
GeoJSON, KML, etc.?

> Also, mapserver support OGC WFS and I think there may be options to
> configure the output as XML or JSON, but I'm not sure. Anyway this would be
> another place to look. Also I would google for:
>
> mapserver <format> ouput
>
> or something like that and see what turns up.
>
> Other might have more direct  help.
>
> -Steve W

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