map gps coordinates with CGI/ (java or Perl)

[Joel Thompson]

Hi Guys - sorry to bug you again, but can someone give me some general 
direction?

1) should I try to manipulate the map file directly through the CGI env? 
If so, what would a sample map file look like to that showed, say Cities 
and the lat/lon coordinates that I provide to show a route...?

2) Or do I have to use CGI (perl, php...etc.) w/ its API into the 
MapScript to execute this some how? Not sure at all how to do this, so a 
simple sample would be very helpful.

3) or is there some other CGI type tools that does this for me already? 
IE. Just pass in a list of lat/lon pairs and it would map it out for me?


Thanks for you help... I really appreciate it,
Joel

Joel Thompson wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to map GPS lat/long coordinates dynamically through CGI 
> (preferred JAVA,perl, php, in that order) - I am new to MapServer...
> Can you help me to get in the right direction with this? is there any 
> add-on tools that do this? or is is just done through the .map w/ html 
> template architecture... where the CGI is used to create the HTML file???
> Any samples would be nice... Thanks in advanced.
>
> -Joel