[Mapserver-users] Displaying x-y Datasets using PHP/Mapscript

[Zak James]

This may be a simpler route to what you are trying to accomplish:

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


zak
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Zak James
Applications and Software Development
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca


On Feb 11, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Jan Vietmeier wrote:

> Hi All,
> I use Mapserver 4.0 with PHP/Mapscript on Windows NT.
>
> Is it possible to create a new layer from a dataset (e.g. list of
> x-y-coordinates) using PHP/Mapscipt? My intention is to read some
> coordinates from an odbc-connection using php and display the 
> coordinates
> with PHP/Mapscript.
>
> The
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc40/phpmapscript-byexample-howto.html 
> -Howto
> says that PHP/Mapscript "... includes the possibility of dynamically 
> create
> maps or modify existing ones and to (and here is the key to the 
> flexibility
> that MapScript has) mix this information with other sources of non GIS 
> data,
> such as user input, non spatial and spatial databases, text files, 
> etc. and
> that you can use ..." and also promises the possibility of "... 
> creation of
> dynamic layers and classes ..."
>
> but I have no idea how to do create layers or maps using PHP/Mapscript.
>
> Any comments or suggestions would be helpful.
>
> Jan
>
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