In accordance with the problem mentioned, I recall a resonable enhancement as described in <a href="http://www.mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-22a.html">RFC22a</a> which would provide an option to configure all the stuff in the mapfile (not requiring MapScript) and would make it easier to customize the query maps as well.<br>
<br>With this enhancement 2 new layer data providers could be implemented, like:<br><br>1. CONNECTIONTYPE=QUERYRESULT would provide to represent the result sets of one layer in a new layer.<br>2. CONNECTIONTYPE=TRANSFORM would provide simple geometry transformations on a source layer and then provide the modified features as a new layer.<br>
<br>By chaining these layers together in a map configuration we could get <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/attachment/ticket/2128/sample4.png">such results</a> as included in the RFC document.<br><br>I consider this kind of enhancement could be implemented within the scope of 1-2 days of work (comparable with a fully elaborated MapScript solution providing the same)<br>
<br>Best regards,<br><br>Tamas<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/14 Bistrais, Bob <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Bob.Bistrais@maine.gov">Bob.Bistrais@maine.gov</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">This question may have come up before, but I haven’t
found it in the archives. I would like to take a selected feature and buffer
it to a specified distance. I know it’s possible to do a queryByPoint
with a buffer distance, but I need to create an actual buffer shape to display
on the map. Has anyone done something like this before? Does MapServer have
this capability?</span></font></p>
</div>
</div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
mapserver-users mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org">mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br><div style="visibility: hidden; left: -5000px; position: absolute; z-index: 9999; padding: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 130%;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup">
</div>