[mapserver-users] RE: How to draw custom rectangles with bounding box coordinates

[Bob Basques]

A while back I did this as an experiment to see where users were looking 
on my server, so I grabbed the BBOX info from the apache logs for all 
map requests and inserted them into PostGIS, then set up a layer (in 
GeoMoose) to view them on top of my basemap.   Worked like a charm, 
never automated it, but it would be easy to do it.   You would also 
likely want to limit the total number of polygons i the database to 
something sane, or over time you would swamp the database with data.

Your question was a bit vague on how much detail you were looking for.  
I don't know you level of experience either.  I used PERL to load the DB 
and MapServer/GeoMoose to handle the display aspects.

bobb



On 7/7/2010 3:39 AM, mani2604 wrote:
> Thanks for the reply...
>
>                       Now i wanna know if this is a sane idea... I wanna
> construct and save the Geometry of polygons/rectangles from BBOX coodinates
> in POSTGIS and When pass on a query I wanna retrieve those rectangles and
> overlay them on the mapserver basemap dynamically.....
>
> Plz do comment on this......!!@
>