<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hal Mueller</b> <<a href="mailto:hal@mobilegeographics.com">hal@mobilegeographics.com</a>> wrote:</span> </div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">In your first message it sounded like you had a collection of<br>locations that didn't change very often.<br>
<br>If that's true, why are you geocoding on the fly? (and if not, then<br>I didn't understand at all).</blockquote>
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<div>you're right. the search database doesn't change much but it's maintained by someone else. if nothing looks good i'd have to tell him- dude add x/y column, but something tells me it's not as cool.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hal Mueller</b> <<a href="mailto:hal@mobilegeographics.com">hal@mobilegeographics.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">First, create a master shapefile with all of the possible search<br>result locations, with a unique ID for each point.
<br><br>Your search DB returns a result that says "display unique ID's 1, 2,<br>5, 216, and 37".<br><br>You create a .DBF file with this schema:<br>UNIQUEID, DISPLAY<br><br>UNIQUEID would be the same as the unique point identifier in the
<br>master shapefile.<br><br>The contents of the dynamic .DBF would be:<br>1, 1<br>2, 1<br>3, 0<br>4, 0<br>5, 1<br>6, 0<br>...<br>36, 0<br>37, 1<br>38, 0<br>...<br>216, 1<br>and so on--1 if the point is to be displayed, 0 if not
<br><br>Now you could copy the other component files from your master<br>shapefile to the dynamic one. But instead, just make a symbolic link<br>to the spatial data parts.</blockquote>
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<div>sweet. let's see if i get this right-</div>
<div>1 external server does the search and says "show blah blah"<br>2 my internal server already has a shp as base layer showing all the geocoded points. i simply create another dbf, do a join and overlay that to show "blah blah"? (didn't quite get symbolic link. join?)
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<p>can a smart wms also help here?</p>
<p>jzs</p></div>