dealing with mixed geometry datasets

[Frank Rittinger]

Hello Bart,

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> does anybody have some best practices for dealing with mixed geometry datasets within Mapserver?
>
> For instance Mapinfo files which contain both points and polygons.
>
> Is it possible to do an OGR query based on geometry type and use 2 layers in the MAP file?
>

that´s what we do: add a column in Mapinfo with the geometry type,
define two layers (or more, depending on the number of geometry types)
in the mapfile and use a filteritem to distinguish between the different
geometry types.

Best regards,   Frank

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