[Mapserver-users] Possible to use a 'event theme' with mapserver?

Tue Jul 22 04:32:42 EDT 2003

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>Would like to display points coming from a dbase File with x and y 
> coordinates. In ArcView this is called an 'event theme'. Is this 
> possible with Mapserver and Dbase-Table?

"you could use mapscript to create a new layer from your dbase file 
on-the-fly, and add this layer to the currently displayed layers."

Did anyone try this with mapscript & Java?
Or is it possible to work with a dynamic layer resulting from records (x,y ) of a dBase table? 

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&gt;Would like to display points coming from a dbase File with x and y 
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">&gt; </span>coordinates. In ArcView this is called an 'event theme'. Is this 
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"you could use mapscript to create a new layer from your dbase file 
on-the-fly, and add this layer to the currently displayed layers."

Did anyone try this with mapscript &amp; Java?
Or is it possible to work with a dynamic layer resulting from records (x,y ) of a dBase table? 
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