Hi, Geoserver can generate GeoJSON, KML and zipped shapefiles as alternative WFS outputformats in addition to gml that is mandatory according to standard. Mapserver generates gml if configured to work as WFS server, and KML support seems to be available by defining it as an outputformat in the mapfile, see http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-58.html And see the vector outputformat in Mapserver 6.0 http://mapserver.org/trunk/output/ogr.html
So you can already get some of the extra formats which are supported by Geoserver, and most/all/even more in the future. However, configuring will be more complicated than with Geoserver which has a nice GUI tool for configuring all the WMS, WFS and WCS services at the same time. -Jukka Rahkonen- -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org puolesta: P Kishor Lähetetty: pe 19.11.2010 19:38 Vastaanottaja: Mapserver-users Aihe: [mapserver-users] MapServer output I have been using MapServer for sometime now, but doing really simple things with it... read in mostly Pg, Shapefile and raster data, and output mostly images via regular CGI or WMS. One thing that GeoServer seems to do very well is provide easy output to a variety of formats -- GeoJSON, images, features, KML, a whole lot more. What are MapServer's capabilities in this regard? Ideally, my application would return the requested format based on the URI. So, given http://server/mapserv/wms/ would return WMS. If I replace "wms" with "kml" I would get back KML, or replace it with "geojson" and get back GeoJSON, etc. Is there a tutorial or documentation on this that someone can point me to? -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
