[postgis-users] MapServer with PostGIS: motivations

[Bruno Patini Furtado]

Hi,

I'd like to know what could motivate the usage of PostGIS behind MapServer
as a source of Vector Data instead of regular Shapefiles? Could it be
performance?
I realize that updating raster data is easier on a spatial database than on
a shapefile.

Do we get a different set of features from MapServer if we use PostGIS in
the backend?



Thanks in advance.

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Bruno Patini Furtado
Software Developer
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