> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Maarten Plieger > Sent: Tuesday, 02 December 2008 07:25 > To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: [mapserver-users] OUTPUTFORMAT shapefiles instead of > GML2/GML3 withWFS? > > Hi all, > Is it possible to configure mapserver in such a way that it > returns shapefiles instead of GML from a WFS GetFeature request?
Not that I know of. Not out of the box. > I would like to be able to output in GML2, GML3 and > shapefiles... GML2 and GML3 work fine. > > The problem is that my GML files get very big, up to 60 > megabytes, and my client applications (like ArcGIS) do not > handle that very well. > Options: - would compressing (gzip/zip) help at all? - you could write a mapscript WxS wrapper (see http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wxs_mapscript) to intercept a GetFeature request (say, catching outputformat=shape), and transform the GML response to a shapefile. I'm guessing folks have done similar things w.r.t. shapefile clip/download functionality. ..Tom > Thank you, > Maarten Plieger > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users