It is probably slower, that's it. Umberto
On 9/28/07, Henric Ernstson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tanks for a quick answer. > > I have used *.ovf files to select data from mySQL for the layers I have today > to get data from the database and so far I have not got any problem yet, is > it not recomended or so to use that method? > > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: "Umberto Nicoletti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Till: "Henric Ernstson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Kopia: MAPSERVER-USERS@lists.umn.edu > Skickat: 07-09-28 09:14 > Ämne: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Select data from table to generate layer > > The same has been cleaned up and added to the documentation here: > > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/vector_data/mygis > > Umberto > > On 9/28/07, Umberto Nicoletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Henric, > > first of all you need to make the mysql accessibile to mapserver by > > converting coordintes into a valid mygis geometry. > > Unfortunately there is not much documentation on mysql around, but I > > could gather the following by looking at the source of mapmygis.c: > > > > > > Standard ways of specifiying are : > > (1) 'geometry_column from geometry_table' > > (2) 'geometry_column from (<sub query>) as foo using unique > > <column name> using SRID=<srid#>'", > > > > NOTE: for (2) 'using unique' and 'SRID=' are optional, but its highly > > recommended that you use them!!! > > > > The most common problem with (1) is incorrectly uploading your data. > > There must be an entry in the geometry_columns table. This will be > > automatically done if you used the shp2mysql program or created your > > geometry column with the AddGeometryColumn() MYGIS function. > >