mysql

[imap at chesapeake.net]

Hello,

That interface between mapscript and database is called PERL DBI/DBD
and it works great, and... works with most databases on the market.
I use MySQL to plot markers/symbols on-the-fly to a user-defined layer, 
that is point data that have been geocoded.

Regards,

Chris 


Chris Fuhrman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, mocha wrote:
> 
> > anyone working on interfacing mapserver to an sql db (mysql?). i think this
> > would speed it up a little.
> >
> 
> Can't say I've gotten mapserver to talk to a SQL server, but i am using
> PostgreSQL/Perl/MapScript to develop a Geocoding/Address-matching type
> application.  PostgreSQL has the ability to store points, lines, polygons,
> paths, and such and can even do some operations on them.   Not the fastest
> ORDBMS on the planet, but certainly one of the more featureful for it's
> price *g*
> 
> What would be nice is some kind of abstract layer between mapscript and a
> data base which would make it easy for a programmer to extract layers and
> display them without having to use shapefiles.
> 
> Really wish I had more time to write something like that...
> 
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