[Mapserver-users] MySQL and Mapserver

[kallwn]

Paul

 This sounds exactly the type of problem I'm wrestling with. I have over
32,000 cities and towns plotted and am trying to show events that occurred
in each location by city, state. Since I'm fairly new to this so if you
think those details might help me I would appreciate it if you can send them
to me also.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Spencer" <pagameba at magma.ca>
To: <bartvde at xs4all.nl>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 14:27
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] MySQL and Mapserver


> Bart,
>
> if you are interested in point geometries only, there is a new format in
> OGR to set up a virtual layer that can draw columns from any ODBC data
> source and map two of the columns to x and y locations.  We've used it
> for a couple of clients and it works very nicely.  If you are interested
> I can send you more details.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
> Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I see in the history log that there has been some work done recently
> > (early December) by Attila on supporting MySQL 4.X for the MyGIS
> > connector. Can it be used already?
> >
> > Also, is it possible to keep the geometries in shapefiles and use
> > Mapserver JOINS to link to tables in MySQL?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for the info.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bart
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