[mapserver-users] plotting points dynamically

[Suman Chatterjee]

Hi bobb,

Thanks a lot. You got my point. I will be adding the points to the
postGIS database with the help of C#. Regarding mapserver connectivity
to the database - how can I connect to it without writing in the
mapfile?

Again can you give me some reference as to how it can be read as a
display request by mapserver?

 

Suman

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Basques [mailto:Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:03 AM
To: Suman Chatterjee; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] plotting points dynamically

 

The best approach I can think of, would be to figure out how to add the
points to the database in a dynamic method, and use MapServer as the
Query/Render engine.  This is how we do GPS location points for example.
The points are loaded into the Database (POSTGIS) and simply (re)read as
a display request by MapServer. 

 

Just set up both sides, the Database and the MapServer connectivity to
the database as two separate processes, and that should get you what you
are after. 

 

bobb 

 

 

>>> "Suman Chatterjee" <schatterjee at addisontx.gov> wrote:

 

Hi all, 

 

I am working on a project which requires adding points to a basic map
dynamically. That means  the basic map will be read from the map file.
Then the points will be queried from a database preferably PostGreSQL
and then plotted on the map. I cannot add the query to the map file
because the points will be generated dynamically at regular intervals. 

 

Is there any way I can do this in mapserver? 

 

  

 

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