.. _tinyows:

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TinyOWS
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:Author: Olivier Courtin
:Contact: olivier dot courtin at oslandia.com

TinyOWS is a lightweight and fast implementation of the OGC WFS-T specification. 
Web Feature Service (WFS) allows to query and to retrieve features.
The transactional profile (WFS-T) allows then to insert, update or delete such features.

From a technical point of view WFS-T is a Web Service API in front of a spatial database.
TinyOWS is so deeply tighed to PostgreSQL/PostGIS.

TinyOWS is already safely used in quite big GIS infrastructure arch,
for instance, to allow European farmers to report the locations
and crops on their fields (and then to be paid by EEC accordingly).
http://foss4g-cee.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IPA-Online.pdf

TinyOWS implement strictly OGC standards and pass successfully
all WFS OGC CITE tests (and even beta ones).

TinyOWS is part of MapServer Suite, but provided as a distinct
module (i.e you could use it in conjonction with MapServer and
MapCache, or as a standalone app)
But both MapServer and TinyOWS could use the same configuration file,
if you want to (or native TinyOWS XML config file).


.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   serverinstallation
   configfile
   mapfileconfig
   openlayershowto
   servertuning
   libxmlschemagmlbug

.. seealso::

  `(French) Utiliser TinyOWS comme serveur WFS-T <http://www.geotribu.net/node/264>`__

.. `Developer documentation <http://www.tinyows.org/trac/wiki/DeveloperDocumentation>`__


