<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>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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.</blockquote>
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<div>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.
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<div>about wms- since wms can filter data, maybe i'd set one up that filters based on the results? big maybe ;)</div>
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<div>jzs</div></div>