[non-spatial]-mysql: point data source

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Dylan,

just a thought, you could also use OGR Virtual Spatial Data (and then
group your layers together in the MAP file).

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VirtualSpatialData

Best regards,
Bart

> Greetings everyone!
>
> I have been using mapserver for quite some time with shapefiles, and am
> quite pleased with its flexibility.
>
> I was wondering if it would be possible to add point data records, stored
> in a MySQL data base, to a map that was created by shapefiles. The records
> in mysql would be formatted as follows:
>
> point_id, x, y, attribute_1, ...
>
> this is not in the openGIS format that the myGIS connector is using, and
> so I wonder if it is even possible to get a 'list' of points like this
> into a mapserver application.
>
> I would like to use PHPmapscript, but i have problems running PHP as a CGI
> as opposed to the more traditional Apache DSO (maybe this problem has been
> solved...)
>
> any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Dylan
>