[mapserver-users] MapServer output

[Frank Warmerdam]

P Kishor wrote:
>>  http://mapserver.org/trunk/output/ogr_output.html
> 
> Thanks! I didn't even think OGR. This is great news. Now, OGR is
> mostly for reading data, and not usually, as I understand, for writing
> data. I am assuming that when the above is implemented, MS will
> support writing out to all the formats that OGR support writing out
> to, no?

Puneet,

Well, there are likely some exceptions that aren't useful for this
purpose.  For instance, OGR can write to PostGIS but it is hard to
stream the resulting dataset back over http.

> Is there a list of formats that OGR can write out to? The formats I
> see at http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html seem to be for reading
> only, no?

If that list says "Creation - Yes" then you have a good chance of being
able to use it with WFS - GetFeature.

>> Note that this is only in trunk.
>>
> 
> Is this scheduled for version 6 of MS?

Yes, it will be in MapServer 6.

Is is already completely implemented and available for use from trunk
nightly snapshots or svn.

Best regards,
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