<div>guys,</div>
<div>i am adding map to a search. the kicker is that the search database is not postgresql and not spatial while i got only postgresql. the approach i've in mind- </div>
<p>1 run search<br>2 create results xml<br>3 geocode results xml<br>4 read geocoded xml OR csv using odbc/ovf</p>
<p>it's all good except it sounds like too much back and forth.</p>
<div>since the search database doesn't change much it might be best to create a shapefile with all points in it and show results using FILTER "string"? i don't think map_layer_feature_points is going to work since it doesn't show attributes on query and i am talking about 5000 results. none of ITEMNQUERY ITEMQUERYMAP ITEMFEATURENQUERY will work either since there're 2 different databases.
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<p>anyway i searched our gallery and 1 cool application searches like so- <a href="http://www.carto.net/williams/yosemite/sendNameData.php?searchstring=M&searchtype=starts%20with&offset=0&limit=12&filterByMapExtent=false&xmin=256800&ymin=4166200&xmax=295200&ymax=4214800">
http://www.carto.net/williams/yosemite/sendNameData.php?searchstring=M&searchtype=starts%20with&offset=0&limit=12&filterByMapExtent=false&xmin=256800&ymin=4166200&xmax=295200&ymax=4214800</a>
. there's another about excavations in italy where the points are dynamically generated from mysql using mysql2shp but pg2shp won't help here, right?</p>
<p>btw when you answer just remember i am a pure cgi kinda guy ;).</p>
<div>jzs</div>