[mapserver-users] formatting query and identify results

[Andy Colson]

> On 9/3/2010 8:12 AM, Mark Volz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an application that I am working on. The parcel id is in a
>> xx.xxx.xxx.x format, however I need to change the format to xx-xxx-xxx-x
>> for an external tax database application. I will not be updating the
>> data, and therefore I will need to make this change through code. I have
>> worked on previous applications using java. For example I would use
>> parcel = ( this.substring(0,2) + "-" + this.substring(3,9). However,
>> unless I am wrong, mapserver does not appear to pass javascript through
>> templates.
>>
>> Is there a way that I can convert the format of numbers directly in the
>> template?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mark Volz
>>
>> GIS Specialist
>
> Not sure if this is relevant, but I have kinda the same problem, some of
> my data has parcel masking and some does not.  I usually add a new
> column (I'm use PostGIS, not shapefiles, but I assume you could still do
> it) and set it with the masking I'd like to display.  So I have a pin
> field and a display_pin field, and can query/join on one and display the
> other.
>
> I know you said you would not update the data, but if I carefully read
> that as not "modify the existing pin", then adding a new column would
> not count as "modify the existing pin".
>
> -Andy
>

On 9/3/2010 9:08 AM, Mark Volz wrote:
 > Andy,
 >
 > Thank you for your reply.
 >
 > I could add a new column to the data to create a new mask so that the
 > application will work.  However, once I am complete with the 
development of
 > the application, I will no longer be in control of the data.  Since 
the data
 > source has the wrong mask, any data updates from my client will not 
include
 > the correct mask.
 >
 >
 > Mark Volz
 > GIS Specialist


Ah, bummer.

Where in the process are we talking?  The beginning?  They open a web 
browser with url http://.../map=a.map&pin=badmask?

Or you are generating the map, know the pin, but need to display the bad 
mask instead of the good?

Humm... still using geoMoose?  So the backend is cgi w/shapefiles?

-Andy