Zoom to location by name or other parameter using cgi mapserv

[Richard Greenwood]

On Dec 23, 2007 6:50 PM, Ben Madin <ben at remoteinformation.com.au> wrote:
> Thanks Richard (& Bob),
>
> On 21/12/2007, at 11:02 PM, Richard Greenwood wrote:
>
> > The trick to getting the query result into your main map is to make
> > the TEMPLATE for the query layer be the main map. So in your map file
> > the template for 'stops' should be whatever your main map html file
> > is.
>
> This was the trick I needed! A little bit of tweaking, and now it is
> nearly perfect - so I will endeavour to write something for the howto
> site. What would be an appropriate heading for this - "Reverse queries"?

I think something like "zoom to selection" might be closer to a phrase
that people would be searching for.

> Some other issues that struck me during this process :

Better start a new thread for that...

> Expressions - there used to be a page on this on the MapServer site,
> but I can't find it now - is it just me. Subsequent to this -
>
> Validation Patterns - the need for this this snuck past me - I
> confess I just installed William Kyngesbury's binaries for 5, without
> reading the changes. However, it deserves a special mention for the
> useful error message, which give me enough of a hint to be able to
> find out what I needed to do!
>
> METADATA
>         layer_title "Farm Boundaries"
>         qstring_validation_pattern '\d*'
> END
>
> cheers
>
> Ben
>
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