[postgis-users] Postgis-RSS feeds

[Obe, Regina]

Are the issues the problem that you have no network access between your
mapserver and your Postgis server or that you want to have your data
consumable by simple RSS clients?

If that is not the issue, not sure what benefit spitting out RSS would
do.  Wouldn't you be better off just using Postgis directly as a
Mapserver datasource and then using Mapserver's built-in WFS/WMS
capabilities to feed your WFS/WMS clients? 

Another project you might want to look at which I think may be doing
what you are trying to achieve is Web feature server which is a Restful
service. http://featureserver.org/

I haven't used it myself but from my readings - it can use a PostGIS
datastore and output GeoRss among other datasources and outputs.  I
think the server backend is written in Python.

Hope that helps,
Regina



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Subject: [postgis-users] Postgis-RSS feeds

Has anybody explored outputting (or automatically updating) GIS layers
from Postgis to remote mapserver or cartoweb WFS clients using RSS
feeds?  Is this practicable/more simple/or a nightmare?? 

I am working on distributing attribute information in a simple
text/reporting dashboard, which will have a WFS client- so would like to
explore if RSS is a possible method to set up and distribute content for
remote user ( very non-technical people) viewing.

Thakns much!

Glenn Brooks
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