mysql

[Stephen Lime]

I did that work 5 years ago. We stored Landsat TM scene footprints in SQS and
used MapServer as a front end for queries. All MapServer did was pass lat/lon
pairs to a small perl/sybperl script that queried SQS. There was no direct connection.
With MapScript a direct connection would be possible and a simple extension similar
to the SDE stuff could also be done. One of the Sybase/Autometric guys contacted
me about 6-9 months ago about some further development. I replied with interest but
never heard back.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> "Sullivan, James R. " <SullivanJ at nima.mil> 04/20/00 07:51AM >>>
Steve, I was talking to some Autometric/Sybase guys about the SQS software
(Spatial Query System), and was asking what Unix based Web mapping
application has been used with it.    The answer was:  Mapserver.
Purportedly somebody at Fornet has linked Mapserver to data held in the
SQS/Sybase database.   Are you familiar with this effort?  The
Autometric/Sybase guys were pretty vague, and did not seem to know much more
than that.


Jim Sullivan


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Stephen Lime [SMTP:steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us] 
	Sent:	Wednesday, April 19, 2000 10:46 PM
	To:	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; mochaexpress at yahoo.com 
	Subject:	Re: mysql

	I working on native access to ESRI SDE. No plans other than that.
Some other things are possible from within mapscript.  Without major
extensions to the database to make it spatially aware I see little benefit
for pure speed. 

	Steve

	<<< mocha <mochaexpress at yahoo.com>  4/19  7:42p >>>
	anyone working on interfacing mapserver to an sql db (mysql?). i
think this 
	would speed it up a little.