[OpenLayers-Users] Save Vector drawings in PostGIS

[Alexandre Dube]

Here's an old demo using OpenLayers + TinyOWS for WFS-T. This might give 
you some ideas.

http://dev4.mapgears.com/bdga/bdgaWFS-T.html

Alexandre

Paul Spencer wrote:
> Try using tinyows, it is a lightweight c-based cgi that implements WFS  
> with transaction support and is backed by a postgres/postgis  
> database.  The WFS protocol in OpenLayers seems to work perfectly with  
> it, use the Save strategy to ensure every edit gets saved to the db  
> and you can use mapserver to draw maps with features from the db.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
> On 2009-08-28, at 11:49 AM, AlessioDL wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for a strategy to use OL as an editor to populate a  
>> polygon
>> postgis layer.
>> I can't use WFS-T because I have to work with UMN-Mapserver that  
>> doesn't
>> support this specification.
>>
>> What I would like to do is this:
>>
>> (1) use the drawing tools to create my vector features on the map
>> (2) capture the WKT string for these drawings in a form field
>> (3) send an insert query to postgis via PHP
>>
>> The (1) and (3) are ok for me, but I need some help with the (2).
>> Can you give me some suggestions?
>> Is my "strategy" correct in your opinion?
>>
>> TIA, alessio
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Alexandre Dubé
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