[mapserver-users] Layer on-the-fly?

[Martin Giljohann]

Hi all,

I´m currently working on my diploma thesis - I want to implement a Tracking Service  
which basically shall be able to show the moving positions of some people in a map.

To get the positions of the persons I use Ericsson´s MPS SDK which simulates a mobile 
network and which pushes the position-data regularly. Unfortunately I don´t now how to 
deal with the data: to show the moving positions of all people I´d probably have to 
generate a new layer, each time the position data are pushed. After that the up-to-date 
layer could be visualized by MapServer.

I´m looking for a way to draw the layer on-the-fly. I suppose that it´s not possible to do 
this by simply using MapServer and MapScript? Could I use PostGIS to generate the 
layer? Maybe a Web Feature Server could help to draw the layer with GML?


Thanks in advance,
Martin