x y from file or db

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Artur Skalski wrote:

>Hi List
>
>One question, could someone point me location of docs how-to to generate map
>of point layer, where points are created from x and y column in dbf file,
>access, or other database. Is it posible to work with such points like with
>points generated upon a shp file? I supose generating of point map like that
>is possible?
>
>regards
>
>and thanks for all tips
>
>Artur
>
>
>  
>
Hi,

have a look at:
    http://ogr.maptools.org/drv_vrt.html
    http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VirtualSpatialData

Regards,
Norbert