Zoom to location by name or other parameter using cgi mapserv

[Ben Madin]

Thanks Richard (& Bob),

On 21/12/2007, at 11:02 PM, Richard Greenwood wrote:

> The trick to getting the query result into your main map is to make
> the TEMPLATE for the query layer be the main map. So in your map file
> the template for 'stops' should be whatever your main map html file
> is.

This was the trick I needed! A little bit of tweaking, and now it is  
nearly perfect - so I will endeavour to write something for the howto  
site. What would be an appropriate heading for this - "Reverse queries"?

Some other issues that struck me during this process :

Expressions - there used to be a page on this on the MapServer site,  
but I can't find it now - is it just me. Subsequent to this -

Validation Patterns - the need for this this snuck past me - I  
confess I just installed William Kyngesbury's binaries for 5, without  
reading the changes. However, it deserves a special mention for the  
useful error message, which give me enough of a hint to be able to  
find out what I needed to do!

METADATA
	layer_title "Farm Boundaries"
	qstring_validation_pattern '\d*'
END

cheers

Ben

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