[mapserver-users] OracleSpatial limitations

[Rodrigo Cabral]

Hey there:

Answering your questions:

1. labeling of OracleSpatial shapes not working (Dr. Watson crash on NT)
  try doing a LABELITEM "MyOracleSpatialColumnName"

The problem with the labelitem, actually, is the way I'm fecthing data in a
buffer when querying the database for it. This is not an infamous
hard-to-find bug. I'll have it fixed soon. I my last post, I mentioned I
have separated some time in the end of this month to make things work. Do
you have other *item statements in the mapfile? Like classitem? That's
usually when this bug appears, when 2 or more *items are used.

2. multi-column expressions not working (Dr. Watson crash on NT)
  try doing a: EXPRESSION ([Column1] > 225 AND [Column2] > 315)

Same reason as above.

3. item query of OracleSpatial shapes not working
  see Rodrigo's mail from 11. Jan. 2002 in the mailing list

Wait for the end of the month =)

Regarding some documentation, I would be pleased to help anyone who'd wish
to create a tutorial. I think this tutorial could extend the one that is
presented in the Oracle Spatial reference (section 2.1 - cola markets).
Starts with data creation using SDO SQL and ends up with MapServer display &
query.

Rod.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bjarni Pjetursson" <Bjarni.Pjetursson at tietoenator.com>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:55 AM
Subject: [mapserver-users] OracleSpatial limitations


Hi all,

I've been playing around with MapServer for a couple of weeks now, doing
mapping of SHP-files, OGR-files and spatial data from Oracle. MapServer is
pretty impressive!

I'm using version 3.5 for Windows with OracleSpatial support (got the binary
from http:parvillers.homeip.net/mapserver).

Since (I think) I found a couple of bugs/limitations in the OracleSpatial
support, I was wondering if anyone knows the current status on the following
issues:


Any links to MapServer with OracleSpatial support would also be appreciated.

Regards
Bjarni Thor Pjetursson