[postgis-users] About Invalid OGC WKT Error

strk at refractions.net strk at refractions.net
Wed Feb 2 10:29:15 PST 2005


On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:18:15PM -0500, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> > Behalf Of Markus Schaber
> > Sent: Wednesday, 02 February, 2005 12:51
> > To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] About Invalid OGC WKT Error
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, Tom,
> > 
> > Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] schrieb:
> > > How does affect the MapServer connections to PostGIS?
> > 
> > To be honest, I don't know. That depends on which method 
> > MapServer uses to access PostGIS. As I never used MapServer, 
> > I have no idea.
> > 
> > When using the JDBC classes, replacing the postgis.jar in the 
> > classpath should be enough. Equally, any other toolkit should 
> > provide its update, with noch changes to mapserver itsself.
> > 
> > When using OpenGIS methods (asText() or asBinary() etc.), no 
> > changes should be necessary.
> > 
> > When using PostGIS specific, like "SELECT geom FROM table;" 
> > then MapServer will need a new HexWKB parser or be changed to 
> > use OpenGIS methods or the new asEWKT() PostGIS specific methods.
> >
> 
> MapServer connects via (user config):
> 
> DATA "the_geom from table_name"
> 
> Does one need to pass a function (like asEWKT(the_geom from table) on this?  I'm not sure how this is evaluated in the MapServer / PostGIS connector code itself, though.

I think it should be transparent. Did you have problems ?
--strk;

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