[Mapserver-users] MySQL WKB in OGR?

[Attila Csipa]

On Monday 29 December 2003 12:42, bartvde at xs4all.nl wrote:
> Or are only a few people using the MyGIS connector and would it be a
> better move to write a MySQL Spatial connector for Mapserver?

A note - mygis is not actively developed. It will be replaced (at least I 
think it will) by an universal extender (JADE) for non-spatial databases, 
which would be implemented with minimal changes od the postgis code for 
hooking up to JADE. This engine is adaptable, so it is possible to leave some 
functions to the native database and some to be implemented by the extender 
It is similar to OGR in some aspects (as an universal data wrapper) but is 
more generic and functionality and code can be changed regardless of platform 
and without recompiling mapserver or JADE itself. The case of mixed 
functionality is what would happen in the case of the mysql version with 
spatial extensions, while the extender woiuld do all the work in the 3.x 
versions. I planned to have JADE functionality in mapserver a few months ago 
but other things popped up in the meantime, so unfortunately the project got 
delayed.