can this be done?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Artur Skalski wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I've got quite intersting problem to solve, and I was wondering if You dear
> Mapserver users coudl help me a bit.
> 
> The issue looks like this:
> 
> I've got Mapinfo point layer with ID information (and only ID), and I've got
> other informations describing those points in databese, like mysql or
> oracle, whatever.... my question is can I somehow join those informations
> and create thematic map? Can i get infos for creating thematic map in
> mapfile from diferent place than geometry, or maybe should this be done
> dinamicaly using php, any way how mapfile should look like?
> 
> Do you have any clues how to solve it?

I am doing thematic maps using joins from PostGIS and it works great. I 
think you can also do some limit joins using GDAL and ODBC connection, 
but you would have to read the docs on that as I haven't tried that.

-Steve W.