OGR does work with ESRI FileGDB tables that are non-spatial. Mike
-- Michael Smith Remote Sensing/GIS Center US Army Corps of Engineers On 6/22/12 1:25 PM, "Jeff McKenna" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 12-06-22 12:46 PM, Brian Fischer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if anyone is willing to share any experience they have >> had with using an ESRI File Geodatabase with MapServer. Specifically >> I¹m wondering about: >> >> 1) How is the performance when compared against other data sources >> for rendering maps? Does OGR/GDAL make use of spatial indexes? >> >> 2) Can a file geodatabase be accessed through PHP or Python >> mapscript for querying/searching? >> >> 3) Could I access a standalone table (non-spatial table) that is >> stored in a file geodatabase with mapscript? Many want to use this for >> joins and relates in my queries. >> > >Hi Brian, > >We did start to look at FileGDB support in MapServer during last year's >WMS Benchmarking exercise. At the time we were a little early for this >testing, as the FileGDB driver was still going through development; but >now, FileGDB has been available in MS4W since January, and we might take >a look at this again for the upcoming WMS Benchmarking exercise for >September (this may address your performance questions). > >As for your specific mapscript questions, as MapServer uses OGR to >connect to FileGDB layers, you should be able to connect to that layer >through mapscript with a CONNECTIONTYPE OGR, no different than other OGR >connections. > >That's a good question about non-spatial tables, did you try an ogrinfo >on that table? Give that a try with MS4W, and then if you can see the >table with ogrinfo then you'll know that at least GDAL/OGR can access it. > >-jeff > > >-- >Jeff McKenna >MapServer Consulting and Training Services >http://www.gatewaygeomatics.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
