do I need postgis?

[Eduardo Spremolla]

It depends on the volume of the data.
If you render the background layers ( city, roads...) from shp file, and
fetch some dozens of gps points from mysql by php I don't think you will
notice the difference.

LALO

El vie, 17-09-2004 a las 09:10, joerg p escribió:
> hello,
> 
> I want to show a gps tracking line on a map and also some cities. I want
> to fetch the data via php mapscript from mysql and draw it dynamicly in
> the map.
> 
> Is it faster to fetch via a map file and postgis?
> 
> thanks
> Joerg
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