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