On 11/19/2010 12:58 PM, P Kishor wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
<wood...@swoodbridge.com> wrote:
On 11/19/2010 12:38 PM, P Kishor wrote:
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?
FYI, there are a lot of changes coming in the rendering code as part of 6.0.
I don't have the RFC's handy, but you might want to start looking at that.
Thanks. I saw some of the RFCs (58 deals with KML). The ones I saw, as
you note above, reference MS 6.0. Other than OGC stuff (WMS, WFS),
does this imply that as is, MapServer can't "render" data into
GeoJSON, KML, etc.?
In 6.0 all the renders are now in a plugin format which will make it
easier to add new renderers and make it easier to maintain existing
renderers to keep them more consistent. I think it also improves the
query output to some extent because that is based on how renders work.
In one sense "rendering" is what mapserver does. in some cases it
renders as an image, in other cases it renders as text or other formats.
I think the other responses to this thread pretty much covered the
details of what you can do now and the additional query responses based
on 6.0 code.
-Steve W
Also, mapserver support OGC WFS and I think there may be options to
configure the output as XML or JSON, but I'm not sure. Anyway this would be
another place to look. Also I would google for:
mapserver<format> ouput
or something like that and see what turns up.
Other might have more direct help.
-Steve W
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