Moving Points

[David William Bitner]

This sounds like more of a database problem than a MapServer problem.  If
you created a utility to update a PostgreSQL/PostGIS table with your
datapoints, you could easily record the zone information with spatial
operations in the database and then display the data with MapServer by just
having a refresh of the map every so often of the whole map (or if you were
using something like ka-map, you could use ajax techniques and you could
move the points around without even refreshing the whole map).  Once the
data is in a database, you've got a lot of options.

On 7/26/06, Jay Varner <jay at sassatlanta.net> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone, I'm totally new to MapServer. I've been working with it
> for a little over a month now. I've read the books and worked through
> the tutorials. I'm now working on a demo project and I just can't get
> it all planned out in my head. I'm hopping ya'll can kick me in a good
> direction.
>
> So, the basic function of the map will be to track gps (or something
> similar) data on a map. The data will of course be updated regularly
> by various devices sending some sort of x,y,z location data. That data
> will be plotted on the map, and the zone (city, county, zip or
> something) the device is in will be recorded.
>
> I've searched around for the past few days and have not been able to
> find an example in MapServer. Any help and advice is most welcomed.
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>
> P.S.
> I don't really know what sort of device will be used to send the data,
> so I just need to fake it.
>



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