#OSGEO IRC Log - 2009-11-12

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00:23:02 strk: does anyone have arguments in favor of GeoJSON vs. GML for passing features around ?
00:23:41 wildintellect: passing between computers or people
00:24:58 darkblue_B: ohh everything is hard in GML, everything just works in GeoJSON
00:25:05 darkblue_B: other than that, no ;P
00:26:42 strk: wildintellect: between computers
00:26:49 wildintellect: GeoJson
00:27:20 strk: for the same 'just works' argument ?
00:27:30 wildintellect: XML parsing is a royal pain
00:27:41 strk: OL does it well it seems
00:27:54 wildintellect: yes either works fine with OL
00:28:04 wildintellect: however what's the other computer OL is talking to
00:28:14 strk: I'm not considering doing it myself. Just had the idea that GeoJSON was smaller, but tests proved me wrong
00:28:38 wildintellect: They seem like they'd be similar in size
00:28:40 strk: the server side would be mapserver for GML and mapfish for JSON
00:28:50 strk: I actually found geojson bigger :!
00:28:51 strk: slighly
00:29:02 strk: with even less attributes
00:29:04 wildintellect: but which is faster to parse
00:29:14 strk: how many times would you be parsing ?
00:29:30 strk: and what's faster to generate...
00:29:42 strk: broad range of variables to consider : )
00:30:16 wildintellect: is this a one way
00:30:24 wildintellect: or a two way exchange?
00:30:28 strk: good question
00:30:51 wildintellect: see if it was 2 way ajax, gml wouldn't even be on the table
00:31:11 strk: I might need editing too.
00:31:22 strk: haven't experimented with that yet
00:31:40 strk: does WFS support editing ? or is that WFS-T ?
00:31:49 wildintellect: WFS-T
00:32:04 wildintellect: and if you're looking for good support of that I believe that's Geoservers game
00:32:27 strk: oh, so mapserver won't be able to do that ?
00:32:49 darkblue_B: are you starting from scratch? whats the time to implement.. i dont think WFS-T has been done well by very many
00:33:13 wildintellect: I always see mapserver being one way ( might be wrong )
00:33:14 darkblue_B: .. proof of a hard bunch of problems, I guess
00:33:15 strk: starting from scratch, no plan yet so its more like a research task for now
00:33:28 wildintellect: personally I'm monkeying with mapfish and geodjango
00:33:48 strk: I started with a mapserver then played with symfony and now added mapfish to it
00:34:08 strk: and was considering "is it worth integrating mapserver in symfony too?"
00:34:12 wildintellect: ya I only use mapserver to serve static data
00:34:32 wildintellect: probably not
00:34:54 strk: unless it's just to get all things closer togheter ( all behind the symfony entrypoint )
00:35:08 strk: but yeah, would make map serving slower
00:35:51 strk: the only reason was for WFS to avoid cross-domain issues ( with symfony responding to the root url )
00:36:01 wildintellect: well, whats the goal, if you want people to upload data and turn it into a wms via the web then yes integration
00:36:32 wildintellect: but if you just need mapserver to server up some maps to an OL widget in your CMS not integration required
00:37:22 strk: I'll want people to upload data ... dunno yet what kind : )
00:37:30 strk: but will surely affect the map
00:37:48 strk: what I figured so far is that mapfish is targetted at this situation
00:38:03 strk: like featureserver and probably geoserver
00:38:25 wildintellect: ah my plan is to take uploads and stick it into postgis
00:39:15 wildintellect: so base maps come from mapserver/geoserver - dynamic data is postgis/geojson directly to OL
01:34:00 strk: wildintellect: no mapfish for you ?
01:37:28 wildintellect: well I haven't decided between mapfish or geodjango but in both cases I plan to use postgis
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