Steve, First of all...thanks for the reply.
I am confused about what I need to do here...and bear with me...I am VERY new to this mapserver stuff. I originally used p.mapper to create an application and then have been modifying the code as I go. I am working on mapserver 5.0. So....if I understand you right, I need to create a second map in my application folder (parcel_lookup.map or something like that) ? Or do I need to create a completely separate application folder for this map? I tried just creating a second map in the application folder for the initial lookup...but after constructing the query url and executing it.....it just says "msLoadMap(): Unable to access file. (parcel_lookup.map)". Any further guidance would be greatly appreciated... :D Kevin Edmundson CIO WTH Technology, Inc 567 W Westfield Blvd Indianapolis, IN 46208 317.259.0105 office 317.259.1423 fax 317.501.8560 mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This message is from the technology firm WTH Technology, Inc. This message is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is directed. If you are not the addressee, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, you are not authorized to use, read, copy or distribute this message and any attachments, and we ask that you please immediately delete this message and attachments (including all copies), and notify the sender by return e-mail so that our records can be corrected. All personal messages express views only of the sender, which are not to be attributed to WTH Technology, Inc, and may not be distributed or copied without this statement. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Lime [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:27 PM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org; Kevin Edmundson Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] query in url There are always many ways. If you don't have any spatial information in the 3rd party application then you have a couple of options: 1) do an attribute query with a URL template (explained below) 2) pass the parcel id to your MapServer application and use it to do an ajax call to lookup the spatial extent information. This would work nicely if using OpenLayers, Ka-Map, dBox, or some other type of client that doesn't reload the entire page. It's really just a variation of 1. Anyway, you'd want to do a simple attribute query first to get the spatial extents of the parcel. So, if you had a special mapfile (parcel_lookup.map) it might look like so: MAP ... LAYER NAME 'parcels' TYPE QUERY STATUS DEFAULT TEMPLATE 'http://wthtecnology.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=main_application.map&mapext =[shpext_esc]' END END The URL to do the attribute query would look like: http:////wthtecnology.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=parcel_lookup.map&qitem=id &qlayer=parcels&qstring=xxx-xx-xxxx-xxxx The is off the top of my head but I've done it and it works nicely. Caveats: 1) depending on version you'll need to set a qstring filter in parcel_lookup.map to validate parcel ids with 2) if using 5.2, it has a new feature to expand extent tags so they aren't so tight to the feature (e.g. [shpext escape=url expand=500] The way this works is your initial call looks up the parcel and gets it's extent. Then that is used to create another call to your main application. The redirection happens automatically and is transparent to the user. Let me know if you need more information. Steve >>> "Kevin Edmundson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/02/08 11:06 AM >>> I have a mapserver site that contains, among others, a parcel layer. I have a 3rd party application that manages parcel data for a customer and I would like to...from the third party application...send a url request to the mapserver that would cause it to open, and zoom to a particular parcel. If the parcel layer was named 'parcels' and the field name was ParcelNumber in the layer, how would I construct the url request to perform the above function...or is it even possible? Kevin Edmundson CIO WTH Technology, Inc 567 W Westfield Blvd Indianapolis, IN 46208 317.259.0105 office 317.259.1423 fax 317.501.8560 mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This message is from the technology firm WTH Technology, Inc. This message is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is directed. If you are not the addressee, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, you are not authorized to use, read, copy or distribute this message and any attachments, and we ask that you please immediately delete this message and attachments (including all copies), and notify the sender by return e-mail so that our records can be corrected. All personal messages express views only of the sender, which are not to be attributed to WTH Technology, Inc, and may not be distributed or copied without this statement. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users