[mapserver-dev] mapmygis.c

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Tue Nov 4 14:50:47 EST 2008


I come not to praise mapmygis.c, but to bury it.

- It has no maintainer.
- It operates on a model of spatial in MySQL (features in blobs) that
has been super-ceded by the official spatial implementation that has
now been there for 5 years.
- It confuses people into thinking that *it* is the real MySQL spatial
support in Mapserver, when the real support is via OGR.
- It is deeply ugly code, and now that the mappostgis.c code it was
based on is retired, I can freely say that. The longer it is there,
the more likely some unwitting soul will template something on it.
(See mapmssql2008.c)

I move that we re-move.

+1 Paul!


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