[Mapserver-users] RE: Using Mapserver & GDAL to find elevation

[Arthur, John]

I'm using PHP, but not above learning Python.  I don't have much experience with C++ either.

Where can I find more information on the gdal binding for PHP?  I saw a the gdal_tutorial.html, looks a bit intimidating.  Maybe I've gotten in over my head :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:35 PM
To: Arthur, John
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: Using Mapserver & GDAL to find elevation


Arthur, John wrote:
> Thanks Frank.  Is there any other ideas outside of mapserver, maybe?

John,

Well, you could use GDAL more directly.  What flavour of MapScript are you
using?  Perl?  Python?  PHP?  There are Python bindings for GDAL and I
think there are PHP bindings as well.  If you are using one of these it
should be possible to callout to GDAL directly to get the values.  This
would be slightly ackward, but doable.  If you are using perl, things
might be more challenging.  Perhaps then the best would be to write a small
external C++ utility to fetch the values.

Best regards,

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