[Mapserver-users] Off-the wall inquiry

[Gregory S. Williamson]

I'm a neophyte at this mapserver thing, but I am guessing you would want to take care with the projection used ... I know that the Informix spatial blade has problems with things that cross datelines, for instance. We provoked some interesting errors in both ESI software and others with things at the north or south poles.

That said, it seems like an interesting idea ... pick a SRID (spatial reference system) which can take a wide range of values and not worry about warping them to a spheroid and then make sure your data points don't cross any of the boundaries of your reference system.

Greg Williamson
DBA
GlobeXplorer LLC
gsw at globexplorer.com


-----Original Message-----
From:	Gerry Creager N5JXS [mailto:gerry.creager at tamu.edu]
Sent:	Sun 6/29/2003 6:05 PM
To:	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Cc:	
Subject:	[Mapserver-users] Off-the wall inquiry

It's not GIS, but...

Has anyone done a network topology map design with Mapserver?  I've got 
to do some campus network management (and some that exceeds our campus). 
  The extent of our network doesn't lend itself to a 'back of the 
envelope' diagram, so I'm thinking of a PostGreSQL scheme to archive the 
data, and a shapefile to map and display it.

I'd rather not completely reinvent the wheel if someone else is working 
on something similar, but collaborate, instead.

TIA,
gerry
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