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

1. Click Desktop ‣ Desktop GIS ‣ Quantum GIS.
2. Click Layer ‣ Add PostGIS Layer....
   • We display the original PostGIS layer first
3. Press New.
4. Fill in tinyows_demo as Connection name and Database
5. Press OK.
6. Press Connect.
7. Select france in the table list
8. Press Add.
9. Zoom in
10. Click Layer ‣ Add WFS Layer....
    • Now we add a WFS layer based on the same table
11. Press New.
12. Fill in tinyows as name http://localhost/cgi-bin/tinyows as URL
13. Press OK.
14. Press Connect.
15. Select ows:france in the layer list
16. Check Only request features overlapping the current view extent.
17. Press OK.
    • WFS layer is now displayed:

Edit data with WFS-T

1. Click Layer ‣ Toggle Editing.
2. Click Edit ‣ Node Tool.
3. Move a vertex (cross) to another position
4. Click Layer ‣ Save edits.
5. 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.