Using multiple .dbf files with the same .shp/.shx files

[David William Bitner]

... or use filesystem symlinks to fake having two shapefiles

On 10/29/06, Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote:
>
> or, export the shapefile and its native dbf to postGIS, supplement the
> postGIS database, and then request what you need from the database...
>
> gerry
>
> Till Adams wrote:
> > Matt,
> >
> > I guess it is difficult to do what you want. A shapefile is handled as
> one
> > file, although there are always three files.
> >
> > Maybe it's possible for you to workaround with that JOIN Object in the
> > mapfile.
> >
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/join/?searchterm=JOIN
> >
> >
> > Or you store the shapestuff in a database (or you create three shapes
> with
> > different namens and dbf-files). Then you may use the Variable
> > Substitution functionality from mapserver and pass the filename via the
> > url when requesting the map.
> >
> > Till :-)
> >
> >> Is there any way to use different .dbf files with the same .shp/.shx
> >> file in MapServer?  I'd like to make an online application that, based
> >> on some choices, would pull info from a different .dbf file, but use
> the
> >> same .shp/.shx file.  The different requests would have different .map
> >> files, but I don't see if there is any way to identify a different .dbf
> >> file to use other than the one of the same basename as the .shp/.shx
> >> files...
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Matt
> >>
> >
> >
>
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