queryable layers

[anthony farrant]

Is it possible to add attributes dynamically to point, except the lat/long
(x/y) attributes of course?
I'm generating points through 1) mapscript 2) dynamic mapfile (text)
generation with inline points.

Thx

A.


On 4/16/07, Jan De Belder <Jan.DeBelder at sadl.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>
>  Why query when you have no attributes ? The point of queryability is to
> retrieve attribute information of one (mapserver QUERY control) or many
> (mapserver NQUERY control) layers on a certain spatial location.
>
> Read more about this on :
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/cgi/controls and the query
> tutorial on http://biometry.gis.umn.edu/tutorial/sections.html
>
> Regards
> Jan
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *anthony farrant
> *Sent:* maandag 16 april 2007 16:26
> *To:* MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> *Subject:* [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] queryable layers
>
> Hi peeps,
>
> I'm generating a dynamic layer with mapscript
> (a point layer composed only of lat/longs, no
> other attributes) and I was wondering if this layer
> was actually queryable?
>
> I think I don't fully understand the notion of queryability.
> Would somebody care to exlplain?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> A
>
>
>
> Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm for more
> information.
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/attachments/20070416/6dc79c34/attachment.htm>