Do you use the MyGIS feature of Mapserver? --with-mygis[=ARG] Include MyGIS Support (ARG=yes/path to mysql_config)
If you do, please speak up, because I am making a motion to the developers list that we remove this very old, obscure feature. This is not about MySQL Spatial support, which exists, and will continue to exist, via the OGR driver. It's about the old MyGIS feature, which predates MySQL Spatial, and stores geometry in MySQL blobs. Paul ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: mapmygis.c To: mapserver-dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I come not to praise mapmygis.c, but to bury it. - It has no maintainer. - It operates on a model of spatial in MySQL (features in blobs) that has been super-ceded by the official spatial implementation that has now been there for 5 years. - It confuses people into thinking that *it* is the real MySQL spatial support in Mapserver, when the real support is via OGR. - It is deeply ugly code, and now that the mappostgis.c code it was based on is retired, I can freely say that. The longer it is there, the more likely some unwitting soul will template something on it. (See mapmssql2008.c) I move that we re-move. +1 Paul! _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
