Update Mapfile on the fly

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Bernhard, 

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:50:17 -0500 Bernhard Klingseisen
<bernhard.klingseisen at ALUMNI.FH-KAERNTEN.AT> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> I'm currently searching for a sol=FAtion of how to update the content
> of a mapservice on the fly. In fact I want to pass features (e.g.
> groundwater sampling sites) to Grass to interpolate a surface and
> send this surface back to the client via mapserver.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea of how to manage this?

You could use any mapscript-flavour which updates the data-part of the
layer (or creates another Raster-layer inside the mapfile) according to
the calculated result of GRASS.

Be aware that gdal needs to be compiled with GRASS-Support.

hth
	Stephan

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