MySQL integration

[Attila Csipa]

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 02:18, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> We have compiled MapServer with --with-mygis support (MySQL 4.1), and
> are trying to add some data from MySQL tables.  The data was loaded
> using libmygis (http://jcole.us/software/libmygis/).

--with-mygis does _not_ use the spatial extension of MySQL 4.1 and thus cannot 
use spatial data from 4.1 tables. It relies on standard mysql column types 
like int, varchar, blob, etc and acts as a wrapper providing the needed 
spatial functions itself (that's why it works even with mysql 3.x). It stores 
data according to the OpenGIS simple features SQL standard (for which 
shp2mysql is a converter).