database connection

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Martin,

You probably can if it is supported by OGR, it includes ODBC support and  
direct MySQL support for your list of databases, I think you can store the  
geometry in WKT format and use what is called virtual spatial data.

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html

Best regards,
Bart

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:26:37 +0200, Martin Poggensee <info at POGGENSEE.NET>  
wrote:

> Is it possible to connect any database which supports the OGC standard  
> with
> the mapserver ??? I need to visualize geeometric data from different
> database systems (Sybase, MS SQL Server, mySQL, etc.).
>



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