mysql?

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi,

it is a feature called Virtual Spatial Data. In OGR you can connect with 
ODBC to MySQL, or you could compile OGR against the MySQL client then 
you don't need ODBC. Basically a table with an X and Y column can be 
made virtually spatial, or you could have a WKT (or WKB) column with the 
geometry in there.

There are the resources:
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_odbc.html
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mysql.html

There is also something native in Mapserver called MyGIS. See:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MySQL

Best regards,
Bart

Paolo Cavallini wrote:

>Hi all.
>I have seen on the home page that MapServer supports MySQL tables via OGR, 
>which however does not have support for spatial data. Could someone point out 
>a resource to understand this better, or give us a brief overview of MySQL 
>support in UMN MS?
>Thanks a lot.
>pc
>  
>


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