On 12/4/06, Hal Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In your first message it sounded like you had a collection of locations that didn't change very often. If that's true, why are you geocoding on the fly? (and if not, then I didn't understand at all).
you're right. the search database doesn't change much but it's maintained by someone else. if nothing looks good i'd have to tell him- dude add x/y column, but something tells me it's not as cool. On 12/4/06, Hal Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First, create a master shapefile with all of the possible search result locations, with a unique ID for each point. Your search DB returns a result that says "display unique ID's 1, 2, 5, 216, and 37". You create a .DBF file with this schema: UNIQUEID, DISPLAY UNIQUEID would be the same as the unique point identifier in the master shapefile. The contents of the dynamic .DBF would be: 1, 1 2, 1 3, 0 4, 0 5, 1 6, 0 ... 36, 0 37, 1 38, 0 ... 216, 1 and so on--1 if the point is to be displayed, 0 if not Now you could copy the other component files from your master shapefile to the dynamic one. But instead, just make a symbolic link to the spatial data parts.
sweet. let's see if i get this right- 1 external server does the search and says "show blah blah" 2 my internal server already has a shp as base layer showing all the geocoded points. i simply create another dbf, do a join and overlay that to show "blah blah"? (didn't quite get symbolic link. join?) can a smart wms also help here? jzs
