[Chameleon] Locate widget

[Gianluigi Nozza]

I have already posted to maplab since I have seen that a solution close to
my needs was probably set up by some listers with your help , Thanks


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Spencer" <pagameba@magma.ca>
To: "Gianluigi Nozza" <gianluigi.nozza@tiscali.it>
Cc: <chameleon@lists.maptools.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Chameleon] Locate widget


> For the record, if anyone was going to do this, you would probably want
> to look at the mapscript querybyattribute function.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
> Gianluigi Nozza wrote:
>
> > I'am wondering, because this capability is a basic function in every GIS
> > application...
> > So I don't think I am the first looking for it.
> > Anyway I am very happy that the task is not so difficult (of course for
> > programmers)
> > so I hope to find answers to the question in a near future.
> > Still waiting for help here and in the mapserver user list....
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul Spencer" <pagameba@magma.ca>
> > To: "Gianluigi Nozza" <gianluigi.nozza@tiscali.it>;
> > <chameleon@lists.maptools.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Chameleon] Locate widget
> >
> >
> >
> >>Gianluigi,
> >>
> >>there is currently no widget that does this.  The Locate widget
> >>specifically uses web services that provide a lookup API (and the
> >>services that it currently implements are all for Canadian stuff).
> >>
> >>I do not believe that there are any plans to implement a widget of this
> >>kind, although it would probably not be too difficult and it would be
> >>kind of cool.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Paul
> >>
> >>Gianluigi Nozza wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi
> >>>I am trying to incorporate locate capabilities in a sample application.
> >
> > The
> >
> >>>demo I have set up with the unvaluable help of  Bart van den Eijnden,
> >
> > has a
> >
> >>>locate widget, that works fine. I have also seen that the test demo
> >
> > included
> >
> >>>in Chameleon 1.0, had the same feature.
> >>>Anyway I have discovered, that the widget works in a different manner
in
> >>>respect to what I was thinking about.
> >>>At first, I believed that locate widget, was looking for occurrence of
a
> >>>"user string" inside the dbf of the data directory (inside the data of
> >
> > the
> >
> >>>shape files); checking this assumption I found that locate widget
> >
> > interface
> >
> >>>with an external web service and not locally. Infact it does not work
if
> >
> > you
> >
> >>>are not connected in Internet.
> >>>This capabilitity is really beyond my needs, which are indeed much more
> >>>simpler.
> >>>I would like to implement  locate capabilities in my applications, on
> >
> > the
> >
> >>>local sides, i.e. ask the user for a feature to find, and then locate
> >
> > that
> >
> >>>feature inside the dbf in the data directory, than zoom out to the
> >
> > extent of
> >
> >>>the retrived (and user selected) feature.
> >>>Do I have a widget working in a similar way, there are examples
> >
> > implementing
> >
> >>>such functionalities ?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks a lot
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
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