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<div>Look at the first few Google results for "symbolic
link".</div>
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<div>If your search results for a particular case are stored in
resultXYZZY12345.dbf, and your master shapefile with all possible
geocoded locations are in master.shp/shx/qix, you would do this:</div>
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<div>ln -s master.shp resultXYZZY12345.shp</div>
<div>ln -s master.shx resultXYZZY12345.shx</div>
<div>ln -s master.qix resultXYZZY12345.qix</div>
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<div>and then you could use resultXYZZY12345 as any other shapefile in
Mapserver.</div>
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<div>You're really at the point where you need to just dig in and try
some of these things. Run some test cases, benchmark them, see
what works fastest for your own situation.</div>
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<div>Please report back to the group--someone else may have a similar
question someday.</div>
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<div>H</div>
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<div>At 12:10 PM -0500 12/5/06, John Smith wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>On 12/4/06,<b> Hal Mueller</b> <<a
href="mailto:hal@mobilegeographics.com">hal@mobilegeographics.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote>There's no real notion of a JOIN in
Shapefiles. You have to copy the<br>
geometry files and generate a new .DBF file. A cheaper way
to do<br>
that, though, is to use a symbolic link instead of a completely
new<br>
copy, for each of the geometry files.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>i searched the website- didn't get
anywhere with symbolic link. anyway what's the fastest join- csv? dbf?
xml? ? if xml i'd use the gmaps way- 1 search
database 2 results as xml 3 read xml with ajax and 4 show
points.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>about wms- since wms can filter data,
maybe i'd set one up that filters based on the results? big maybe
;)</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>jzs</blockquote>
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