query by expression

[Joel Anderson]

Hello All,

I haven't been very diligent about keeping up on this, so I'll just ask:
speaking of the next release, is querying tiled data going to be available?
That would be really great if true!

Thanks

Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <morissette at dmsolutions.ca>; <s371538 at student.uq.edu.au>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: query by expression


> I wanted to add that this is what itemquery is turning into in the next
release. Dan's
> suggestion is a good workaround for the moment.
>
> Steve
>
> Stephen Lime
> Internet Applications Analyst
>
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>
> >>> Daniel Morissette <morissette at dmsolutions.ca> 01/29/01 01:11PM >>>
> Robert Ofarrell wrote:
> >
> > Daniel,
> >
> > Is it possible to query by expression and get the shapes returned by
such
> > a query?
> >
> > Something to the effect of $map->queryUsingExpression();
> >
> > Robert O'Farrell
> > University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
>
> Robert,
>
> There is no queryUsingExpression() call... but you might be able to
> achieve the same result if you set the expression in the query object of
> the layer, and then use queryUsingRect() with a rectangle the size of
> the map.  I've never done it, but that should work.
>
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>  Daniel Morissette                morissette at dmsolutions.ca
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