[mapserver-users] Re: Join from SHP file to PostgreSQL table

[Bob Basques]

All, 

How about incrementally loading the SHAPE files at some predetermined
interval into POSTGIS is this feasible, are the data files to large,
etc? 

bobb 




>>> "Fawcett, David (MPCA)" <David.Fawcett at state.mn.us> wrote:


Your client has some pretty custom requirements.  How current does the
data published by the Web server need to be?  Could it be refreshed
nightly or hourly, or do changes to the data have to be immediately
reflected in on the Web? 


  


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[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Flavio
Carmo
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 1:49 PM
To: Stephen Woodbridge
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Re: Join from SHP file to PostgreSQL
table 

  

Hi, 

  

Sorry, but i cant upload the shapes to postgres. The shapefiles are
modified using arcview and the data in the postgres is modified using a
custom desktop software that my client uses for about 5 years. The
software open the shapefiles, then using a ODBC connection with
postgres, make the join in memory and shows the information for each
geometry. 

  

I cant undo this situation, so, my client propose to me to uses a
opensource solution to also make this join in a WMS service. He knows
Geoserver and Mapserver. Geoserver cant do this too, so i've hoped that
mapserver could be a solution. 

  

Regards, 


Flávio Carmo


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 16:35, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote: 

On 11/29/2010 2:21 PM, flaviocarmo wrote: 

Hi,

Thanks all for your responses. Im a novice in Mapserver so, after
reading,
now i know that:

- I cant use a JOIN to shown only geometrys with the CODE field stored
on
Postgres (or another Database) because joins cannot modify the look of a
map;

- I need to use a template always to show the queries results;

- Case-sensitive fields can be a problem in a query with mapserver;

- The "PG:" string for was my mistake. I missed in the mail, but was in
my
MAP file. Sorry.

Now what? There isnt a way to solve my issue? My client needs a
opensource
solution to deliver his data. His current solution (ESRI ArcGIS Server)
is
too expensive to buy another license, so he asked for a solution with
the
same quality, but opensource.

There is a way to workaround this? 
  

Favlio,

I would put all the data in a postgres/postgis database and display it
from there. There is a simple shapefile loader:  shp2pgsql. In this
setup you can easily join tables, create inherited tables if you are
working with data like streets.shp for multiple countries so the parent
table can be used to seamlessly display the multiple streets tables as a
single layer in mapserver.

He may have to rethink his work flow a little because the tools are
different, but this would be the case regardless if he is changing the
software that he is using.

-Steve W 


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