[mapserver-users] querying with mode=tile

[Mr. Puneet Kishor]

On Sep 10, 2011, at 10:03 PM, Prabu Raja wrote:

> http://mapserver.org/cgi/controls.html?highlight=mapxy
> 


Thanks Prabu.


To the MapServer developers/documenters --

On the page provided above, I note 5 instances of "mapxy". Only the following one is vaguely indicative of being useful in queries because of the last three words "User with queries."

"MAPXY [x] [y] , MAPXY (shape)
A point, in the same coordinate system as the shapefiles, to be used in conjuction with a buffer or a scale to construct a map extent.
Can be set to shape as an alternative option. In this case mapextent is set to the extent of a selected shape. Used with queries."



I am curious as to how I could have figured out that mode=query combined with mapxy=lng+lat would have been sufficient for querying by point? I do genuinely want to know.



Additionally, just below that MAPXY entry, there is the write-up no MODEs. Granted, the text warns that "note that all of the query modes also support map-only modes, e.g. ITEMQUERYMAP, which for brevity are not all listed," where would I read up on mode=tile other than at [http://mapserver.org/output/tile_mode.html], the latter page strangely saying that it is revision 9817 updated on 

> Date:	$Date: 2010-02-20 11:35:53 -0800 (Sat, 20 Feb 2010) $
> Last Updated:	2008/04/30

Hmmmm...




> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Sep 10, 2011, at 9:42 PM, Prabu Raja wrote:
>> 
>>> Try this,
>>> 
>>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/app?layers=layer&mode=query&mapxy=lng+lat
>>> 
>>> where lng = clicked longitude
>>>         lat = clicked latitude
>>> 
>>> working for me.
>> 
>> 
>> Neat! it does work. Many thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> Where did you find this information? Could you please point me to the
>> location in the documentation where I could read up on this?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/app?layers=layer&mode=query&img.x=430&img.y=375&imgext=59.781131+96.2920453+69.171756+91.588920
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Prabu Raja
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Prabu Raja