[mapserver-users] Re: Mapscript

[Andries J. Algera]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
> You can use the new layerObj methods open()/close() and getShape() to do
> the equivalent of what you used to do with shapefiles to read the
> bounding box of selected shapes.  These new methods will work with any
> data source supported by MapServer and not just shapefiles. 
> 
How would I do this if the datasource is oraclespatial or postgis? Because
in this case I won't have a file to open. 

Andries

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