[mapserver-users] [EXTERNAL] GeoJSON as WFS output format without template

[Peter Hopfgartner]

On 11/13/2013 12:49 PM, Smith, Michael ERDC-RDE-CRREL-NH wrote:
> Peter,
>
Hi Michael,
> You can use OGR outputformats. Add something like this to your mapfile
>
> OUTPUTFORMAT
>   NAME "geojson"
>   DRIVER "OGR/GEOJSON"
>   MIMETYPE "application/json; subtype=geojson"
>   FORMATOPTION "STORAGE=stream"
>   FORMATOPTION "FORM=SIMPLE"
> END
>
> Add to your LAYER or MAP METADATA, "wfs_getfeature_formatlist” "geojson"
>
> And then in your WFS call add &outputformat=geojson.
>
> This will return geojson directly in the browser, if you need it to 
> download, you can change the FORMATOPTION to FORM=ZIP
>
> See http://mapserver.org/output/ogr_output.html for more detail.
>
Thanks, this works!

> Mike
>
> -- 
> Michael Smith
> US Army Corps
> Remote Sensing GIS/Center
Peter

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>
> From: Peter Hopfgartner <peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com 
> <mailto:peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com>>
> Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 6:15 AM
> To: users mapserver <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org 
> <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [mapserver-users] GeoJSON as WFS output format 
> without template
> Resent-From: Michael Smith <michael.smith at usace.army.mil 
> <mailto:michael.smith at usace.army.mil>>
>
> Hi list!
>
> I wanted to have GeoJSON as an output format. Now, if I got the 
> documentation right ( 
> http://mapserver.org/it/development/rfc/ms-rfc-62.html, 
> http://mapserver.org/it/development/rfc/ms-rfc-36.html), I should 
> prepare a template for each layer I'd like to serve as GeoJSON.
> Is this right or is there a way that MapServer guesses a reasonable 
> format directly from the data, as it does for GML?
> Indeed, http://mapserver.org/it/output/template_output.html says 
> "There are other, simpler, ways to output some of these formats using 
> MapServer".
> Does this simpler way exist for GeoJSON, too?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
>

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