[Mapserver-users] Spatial Joins

[Paul Ramsey]

Wendy Roseberry wrote:
> Is it possible to do spatial joins between 2 or more data layers with 
> mapserver?  Could someone provide an example?
>  
> Thanks,
> Wendy Roseberry
> Software Developer
> www.accessArkansas.org <http://www.accessArkansas.org>

You will probably find spatial joins easier to execute in PostGIS than 
in Mapserver. People mean different things somethings when they say 
"spatial join". Sometimes they mean "two stage query": click select an 
item in Layer A and then return all the items in Layer B which are 
within distance Q. You could do that in Mapserver using Mapscript I 
think. A general and complete spatial join you would want to use 
something like PostGIS for.

P.

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