Hi, If you happen to have a little bit time for considering some day, consider also using WFS for queries. And if you cannot manage to get the geojson outputformat work through the OGR outputformat system in a minute, you can install TinyOWS besides Mapserver. It can read the same mapfiles and it can output geojson out-of-the-box.
-Jukka Rahkonen- Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: >On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Richard Greenwood wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> >> wrote: > >>> However, since I am not using MapScript (even though I would prefer to), I >>> would have to implement both CGI and MapScript to do what you are >>> suggesting above -- CGI to display the map and MapScript to do the query. > >> But my point was that you can do the query without mapserver at all if > the data is in postgis. Use a server-side language such as Perl or PHP > to pass the request to postgis, which can do a spatial query, and then > Perl or PHP can format the result as JSON and return it to the page > (via AJAX). > On second reading, I now get what you are saying. Strange that it never > occurred to me. Sounds very sensible, and I will implement it tomorrow. That > way I can get away from CGI `mode=query` and its TEMPLATE-ing vagaries. Yes, > my data are in Pg, so I can do all my querying with Perl. > Wish I could do away with `mode=tile` and also get tiles back via MapScript. > Then my solution would be complete. >Thanks for this really useful hint (more like making me see the obvious that I >was missing for some reason). Puneet._______________________________________________ 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
