Displaying dynamic pushpins

[Ken Lord]

Hi Alex,

I have not yet implemented it, but I have plans to do something
similar to what you are doing.  You may not want to tackle it the way
we will be, but maybe it will give you some ideas.

In my case, I will be creating the points by using an ASP webpage to
write the new points to a PostGIS database table that will be
displayed by mapserver, using the new windows friendly
postgresql/postGIS package.

The mapserver webpage (actually within a flash interface in our case)
will have a form to submit the data to the ASP page in the background
to add the point and its attributes.

In our case the user will either type in the coordinates or click a
tool on the map, one point at a time.

In your case I would assume that you'd have some type of text file
from your GPS that you would tell the ASP page to parse through to add
the records.

I'm sure all those PHP / Linux guys out there have their analogous way
to do this if you prefer to lean that way.

Cheers,
Ken Lord
Vancouver BC

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:13:42 +0100, Alex Wells <ad_wells at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I am just getting started with Mapserver and I am a beginner in this sort of
> thing.  I am not sure about the best way to go about displaying waypoints
> and dynamic pushpins on my map.  I have installed Mapserver on Apache on
> Windows XP, and already got a map together.  I want to bring in GPS
> coordinates from remote devices and display them together on the map.
>
> Maybe the shapelib libraries are the way to go? i.e. convert coordinates
> into point shapefiles 'on the fly'?
>
> Your wisdom would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Alex