This sounds like more of a database problem than a MapServer problem. If you created a utility to update a PostgreSQL/PostGIS table with your datapoints, you could easily record the zone information with spatial operations in the database and then display the data with MapServer by just having a refresh of the map every so often of the whole map (or if you were using something like ka-map, you could use ajax techniques and you could move the points around without even refreshing the whole map). Once the data is in a database, you've got a lot of options.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jay Varner</b> <<a href="mailto:jay@sassatlanta.net">jay@sassatlanta.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi everyone, I'm totally new to MapServer. I've been working with it<br>for a little over a month now. I've read the books and worked through<br>the tutorials. I'm now working on a demo project and I just can't get<br>it all planned out in my head. I'm hopping ya'll can kick me in a good
<br>direction.<br><br>So, the basic function of the map will be to track gps (or something<br>similar) data on a map. The data will of course be updated regularly<br>by various devices sending some sort of x,y,z location data. That data
<br>will be plotted on the map, and the zone (city, county, zip or<br>something) the device is in will be recorded.<br><br>I've searched around for the past few days and have not been able to<br>find an example in MapServer. Any help and advice is most welcomed.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Jay<br><br>P.S.<br>I don't really know what sort of device will be used to send the data,<br>so I just need to fake it.<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>************************************
<br>David William Bitner