geos Bufferring mapserver 4.10

[percy]

This is the sort of thing that is most appropriate for PostGIS,  it 
really starts to get into the realm of GIS "analysis", which Mapserver 
does NOT purport to do :-)

I would look into PostGIS' "Simple Features Specification for SQL 
<http://www.opengis.org/docs/99-049.pdf>". It will do the buffering and 
intersecting you describe.

However, it sounds like this doesn't need to happen interactively 
through the web interface, if so you might explore a desktop GIS such as 
Quantum GIS, uDig, etc.
Percy

Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
>> i am a begainner in the mapserver World... i have completed 
>> only one simple project just for viewing map, have no analysis.
>>
>> now i contiue a project using php mapsript but now fall in 
>> great problem.
>> i have shape file(.shp) containnig roads network. i have to 
>> create a buffer area of this raods network arround 10 km. 
>> using this buffer area i have to clip/select agricultural 
>> land from another shape shape file.
>>
>> i can create buffer using
>> $shp=roadlayer->getshape(-1,0);
>> $shp->buffer(10);
>> but it create buffer for only one road not the whole network... 
>>
>>     
>
> buffer works at the shapeObj level, so you have to apply the buffer to
> each shape, i.e.:
>
> for(my $i=0; $i<$shapefile->{numshapes}; $i++) {
>   # apply buffer
>   # ...
> }
>  
>   
>> plz give me the idea which process i have to follow to 
>> complete  my project..
>>
>>
>> my configuration:
>> mapserver 4.10(windows)
>> php mapscript
>> windows 2k
>>     
>
>