We may need to consider caching to a shapefile or something like that. You'd be free then to reference that file as a layer. Slinging ids around is another idea I've used with OpenLayers. You pass the id into a "selection layer" by changing an expression on-the-fly and in that case you'd have full symbology control. A shapefile cache would work similarly but you'd swap the DATA...
Steve >>> BrainDrain <[email protected]> 03/16/09 4:39 AM >>> I need queryfiles to persist query results (serialize to string/binary method wanted!) as a part of whole map 'state'. But I need more convenient, handy way to configure style of queried (selected) features. Style section to setup {border (color, line pattern, transparency), filling (color, fill pattern, transparency), maybe some symbolization} instead of just highlight color. It will be very useful (currently I need to dump query results into some temp table in spatial db - which has a spec. layer section (sections - for each feature type) in map file). For. ex. if my 'selection' is small - I can highlight it with vector features (good looking and fast, flexible styling!, no raster (all tiles! - can't decide which tile to redraw for general queries) data requests and redrawing - in OpenLayers), but when selection is big - I need to highlight it on server and re-request map tiles. Steve Lime wrote: > > Hi all: Consider this a survey of sorts. I'm wondering how many of you > make use of saving queries, either via the CGI or MapScript. It's an old > feature that isn't terribly useful and I'm trying to understand the pain > the community might incur if they go away in 6.0. If you didn't know they > existed or how you might use them then it's safe to say you don't need > 'em. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Prevalence-of-the-use-of-queryfiles...-tp2471795p2484926.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
