[OpenLayers-Users] Using shp-files dynamically

[Simone Giannecchini]

Notice that it is possible to upload shapefiles to the geoserver
directly via the experimental REST interface. It might be worth
exploring that route.

Simone.
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Ivan Grcic <ivan.grcic at geofoto.hr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe after user uploads the file, you just run shp2pgsql that uploads
> it into PostGis and u displays it inside OL with little bit of
> filtering (for en example CQL_FILTER=shpfilename=name That is one of
> the simpliest solutions i could come up in 1 minute...
>
> Regards,
> Ivan
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Lehtonen, Mika <mika at digikartta.net> wrote:
>> I would be glad if I could get someone's opinion on the following matter:
>>
>> This is also business related, which I guess is a little unusual in this
>> list. I won't be carrying on these questions, forgive me this. The
>> innermost is still technical.
>>
>> My client has a light WebGIS system which has been carried out with
>> Openlayers, GeoServer and PostGIS as a backend. Now he would want me to
>> build an extension to his system where end-users could upload their own
>> shp-files into it. Just upload and start to use them, that simple. I
>> guess the shps' are mainly points, and quite simple. The end-users are
>> ordinary PC-users, so no complicated phases can be accepted.
>>
>> We are having a huge gorge between our thoughts of how much this would
>> take hours to implement. My client claims that this is a matter of
>> adding a simple layer into their system and that's why it couldn't
>> possibly take more than a day or two at most. And in that case, it's
>> better be perfect. I said, on the other hand,  that I could build
>> something in a week, that would fulfil the most of the demand, but that
>> I'm not sure yet if this is something that is feasible.
>>
>> So, what do you think? Any ideas what would be the best approach in
>> order to carry out this?
>>
>>
>> - mika -
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