[Mapserver-users] What doesn't MapServer do?

[David Bitner]

Would you be willing to share your geocoding add-in?

>Geocoding was the only web mapping thing I needed at first in my app to do
>that Mapserver didn't do natively. I simply wrote an add-in for php in C
>that does the geocoding part. So when I load the php_mapscript .dll I also
>load my goecoding engine .dll. It ended up working very well. It uses GDT
>data from shapefiles, it wouldn't take much to scale it to use a MySql
>backend as an alternative to shapefiles. So far for me adding php
extensions
>in C to tack on the extra functionality seems to run much quicker than when
>I wrote the same thing directly in php. So every add-on since then I have
>done as a php extension .dll in C.