At 6:16 PM -0500 12/4/06, John Smith wrote:
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.
You could keep your own table--x/y column, joined by the unique ID.
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?)
Pretty much right.
There's no real notion of a JOIN in Shapefiles. You have to copy the
geometry files and generate a new .DBF file. A cheaper way to do
that, though, is to use a symbolic link instead of a completely new
copy, for each of the geometry files.
can a smart wms also help here?
Maybe. I don't have any WMS experience. Someone else will have to
answer that.
