[postgis-users] inserting records via web-client

Shoaib Burq hydromap at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 20:53:21 PST 2005


Whoa! Thanks guys... sounds like its gonna be trivial.

What would be some advantages to taking the abstract 3 tier approach? Any
performance issues?

Also (sorry this may be slightly off-topic) am I correct in my understanding
that Geoserver is kinda like a Java substitute to Mapserver?

cheers
sb

On 12/6/05, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:
>
> I think both chameleon (maptools.org) and mapbender ( mapbender.org)
> allow client side digitization. From there it is a very small amount
> of scripting to post the result back to a trivial PHP or Java or
> Python or Whatever script that inserts the result into the database.
> Or, as Tom wrote, you could use an even more abstracted
> architecture.  We've done this using a proprietary web UI a couple
> times, OpenIMF (moximedia.com) (where the "open" stands for open
> standards, not open source).
>
> P
>
>
> On 5-Dec-05, at 4:19 PM, sab bman wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am currently trying to assess how difficult it would be to insert a
> > user-drawn shapes+attributes into a PostGIS back-end. Using perhaps
> > SVG or javascript enable web-client. Does anyone know if this has been
> > achieved?
> >
> > thanks
> > Shoaib Burq
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