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A day with FeatureServer #2

Posted: May 03, 2008
Categories: OpenStreetMap, Web2.0, GIS, WMS, Windows, Twitter, PostGIS, devs, Python, OpenLayers, FeatureServer, Ubuntu, WFS, Flickr, Uncategorized
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In the previous post we have seen an introduction to FeatureServer, and we were just playing with the base edit sample, with the scribble layer.Now it is time to use FeatureServer with our datasets: I am assuming that you will want to create FeatureServer services for shapefiles, PostGIS layers, OpenStreetMap, Twitter and Flickr.Data preparation for this demo1) shapefilesIf you want to follow my steps, you can download the sample shapefiles of New York I was using to assemble this demo here: select New York as a state and then as a county, and download the Block Groups and the Roads,...
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