Content type from WFS? [#2289875]

I understand Cartaro Drupal node(s) with geospatial field can be exported as WFS. Is there a way to do the reverse? That is, if I have added a WFS to Geoserver the old-fachioned way, is there a possibility to see that data as Drupal nodes for management/editing? Sorry if this is in documentation, it seems like an obvious capability for the system, but haven't found it in my searches/reading so far.

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Comment #1

ulim CreditAttribution: ulim commented 20 June 2014 at 15:22

No, this is not possible. In order to use the built-in WFS editing capabilities of Cartaro your data must be organized in the database according to the usual Drupal content type structure. This is probably not the case when you add a custom WFS within GeoServer.

Comment #2

agerard CreditAttribution: agerard commented 20 June 2014 at 18:26

I imagine the feeds importer module could be extended to WFS, as long as the content type was first set up properly. I've been using it to bring a CSV file in as geosp. Drupal nodes for mapping (CSV of layer that went into geoserver in our previous setup). But that's a few steps short of just seeing the WFS data as nodes. Ah well.

Thanks again.

Comment #3

ulim CreditAttribution: ulim commented 22 June 2014 at 09:46

The feeds importer can already read WFS data into nodes if the optional GDAL module is installed. However there is no way to edit the original data source of your WFS within Cartaro (that is how I understood your fist question). If you are fine with importing the WFS and editing the data within Cartaro without sending the modifications back to the original WFS this is indeed possible.

Comment #4

agerard CreditAttribution: agerard commented 23 June 2014 at 15:40

Very cool. I was looking to import a test layer, which we've already cleaned up and ingested as WFS on another geoserver (I have the data as csv but it's not as clean). From there we can maintain as nodes and serve as new WFS from Cartaro. But since it's quite likely that we'll find other WFS layers we want to bring in (which we don't have other source data for), this is great to know about.