On 12/4/06, Hal Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
i searched the website- didn't get anywhere with symbolic link. anyway what's the fastest join- csv? dbf? xml? ? if xml i'd use the gmaps way- 1 search database 2 results as xml 3 read xml with ajax and 4 show points. about wms- since wms can filter data, maybe i'd set one up that filters based on the results? big maybe ;) jzs
