Passing lat/lon to URL

[Douglas K. Rand]

Douglas K. Rand wrote:

> I'm working on a fairly simple map browser that I need to pass a
> latitude and longitude to another URL.  [...]

Stephen Lime wrote:

> I'm not quite sure I see the problem. If I understand right, then you're using
> the map for the user to identify a point correct? There are several ways to
> deal with this. The easiest I think would be to create a second, really simple
> map file that basically looks like:
>
> MAP
>   STATUS OFF # important, you don't want a map created
>   UNITS meters # whatever matches the projection
>
>   PROJECTION
>     .. set your projection ...
>   END
>
>   WEB
>     TEMPLATE "http://www.com/form?lat=[maplat]?lon=[maplon]"
>   END
> END

Right on the money. I hadn't considered using a different map. This works like a
champ (after I also figured out I need the image size in the form).

Thanks.