[Mapserver-users] MapInfo to Mapserver with additional data from MySQL

[Daniel Morissette]

Flavio Hendry wrote:
> 
>>2. We need to be able to plot OS Grid Points stored in the MySQL
>>database onto the maps when they are produced in MapServer.  (Is it 
>>possible to do this, or does map server only display data from the 
>>MapInfo export?)
> 
> 
> you should be able to create the point from MySQL ...
>  

BTW, it used to be that you had to use MapScript to plot your points 
coming from MySQL, but with the latest version of GDAL/OGR you can point 
to your MySQL tables directly, just as if they were shapefiles or TAB 
files, see:

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

Daniel
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