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<DIV>Yes, you can use PHP mapscript to do a point spatial query. <A href="http://mapserver.org">http://mapserver.org</A> documentation explains how to use it.<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Dean <deanm75@hotmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, March 13, 2009 1:33:11 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [mapserver-users] Getting information out of shapefile<BR></FONT><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Hi,</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I have a requirement to use PHP to get information from a shapefile. I was hoping MapServer/MapScript might be able to do this as Im already using it to serve custom mapping laid on top of the Google API.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I have a custom shape file (flat file) and I need to be able to query somehow and have the server tell me what polygons/attributes a certain point is contained in.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Eg, I send a lat/long to the map server and it returns a list of polygons/attributes that the lat/long pair is surrounded by.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Is this possible with MapServer/Map0Script? If not, where should I be looking to get this kind of query information?</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Regards</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Dean</P>
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