
TinyOWS Quickstart¶
TinyOWS is a high performance, Transactional Web Feature Service (WFS-T) which is light weight and easy to deploy, using a CGI or FastCGI interface and using PostGIS for data storage.
This Quick Start describes how to:
- display a WFS layer in QGIS
- edit a WFS layer using WFS-T in QGIS
Display a WFS layer with QGIS¶
- Click .
- Click
- We display the original PostGIS layer first
. - Press New.
- Fill in tinyows_demo as Connection name and Database
- Press OK.
- Press Connect.
- Select france in the table list
- Press Add.
- Zoom in
- Click
- Now we add a WFS layer based on the same table
. - Press New.
- Fill in tinyows as name http://localhost/cgi-bin/tinyows as URL
- Press OK.
- Press Connect.
- Select ows:france in the layer list
- Check Only request features overlapping the current view extent.
- Press OK.
- WFS layer is now displayed:

Edit data with WFS-T¶
- Click .
- Click .
- Move a vertex (cross) to another position
- Click .
- Hide layer unchecking tows:france in the layer list
- You should see the edited way in an other color, coming directly from PostGIS.
What Next?¶
To learn more about TinyOWS, a starting point is the TinyOWS Documentation on the MapServer homepage.