Re: [Geoserver-users] geoserver support for routing applications

[Roman I. <rom...@ya...>]

Hi,
I just checked out pgrouting and it looks like it will
meet my need. Just need more clarification on what you
said earlier about "drive pgRouting from your custom
application, register on the fly the generated layers
on GeoServer and have it serve them by WMS or WFS".

how do you register on fly a generated layer to
geoserver ?


--- Andrea Aime <aa...@op...> wrote:

> Roman Isitua ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can geoserver be used for routing applications.
> e.g.
> > can I make a request (wfs) for directions to go
> for
> > one location to another. (possibly displaying the
> > shortest path). Does geoserver support this
> > functionality ? if not are they plans to support
> this
> > in the near future ?
> 
> Roman,
> we don't. As Justin stated, WFS is not the proper
> protocol
> either, since it's designed for pure data serving,
> computation
> is managed by WPS.
> If you want to do routing, I suggest you look for an
> alternative
> solution, such as pgRouting
> (http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/),
> drive pgRouting from your custom application,
> register on the
> fly the generated layers on GeoServer and have it
> serve them
> by WMS or WFS. That will require quite some custom
> programming
> thought.
> 
> Hope this makes sense.
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 



       
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