[mapserver-users] MapServer SOS setup questions

[Carsen Banister]

Brent,

 

Thank you, Hibernate looks promising! 52North was the first SOS implementation I considered, but it was not evident that it could be used with a custom db structure. I will look into this, as using MapServer just for SOS is clearly a headache!


Regards,

Carsen 

 

From: Brent Wood [mailto:pcreso at pcreso.com] 
Sent: November 28, 2014 1:19 AM
To: Carsen Banister; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] MapServer SOS setup questions

 

Mapservers SOS implementation is pretty minimal these days.

 

You might look at 52N for their FOSS SOS server. You can either harvest you data into the internal db, or use Hibernate to build a middleware tool that can access your db directly.

 

Brent Wood

 

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From: Carsen Banister <carsen.banister at gmail.com <mailto:carsen.banister at gmail.com> >
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>  
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 2:50 PM
Subject: [mapserver-users] MapServer SOS setup questions

 

Hi,

 

I would appreciate any help on some items associated with setting up MapServer SOS. I am quite new to MapServer, and am trying to get up to speed as quickly as possible. The reason for using MapServer’s SOS is that the database structure is custom and I’m not aware of any other SOS servers that support custom MySQL databases (if you can point me in a direction easier than MapServer, please do!).

 

So, the questions I am hoping to get clarification on are:

 

1.      How do you connect different layers together? e.g. layer and sublayer. What is the syntax for that in the mapfile?

 

2.      Is there a way to dynamically generate layers (e.g. from database query result), or does the layer structure have to be hardcoded?

 

3.      When you do a GetObservation, how do you set up MapServer so that that request pulls data from the database, e.g. OVF file configuration?

 

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

Best regards,

Carsen


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