[mapserver-users] Oracle spatial connection binary

[Yu-Hsin Chen]

Oracle Spatial works fine in the Linux/UNIX environment for MapServer 3.5.  I haven't work on 3.6 yet and I also don't know if it is in the Windows Binary.  Perhaps you can try it out by adding a layer in your mapfile that attempts to retrieve data from oracle such as:

LAYER
  NAME "name"
  CONNECTIONTYPE oraclespatial
  CONNECTION 'userid/pw@sid'
  DATA "geometry from (select gid, geometry from places)"
  TYPE POINT
  STATUS DEFAULT
   .
   .
   .
END

Of course its success is not only depending on MapServer but also your web server and Oracle set up.

Yu-Hsin Chen

-----Original Message-----
From: Merlijn Simonse [mailto:M.Simonse@Vicrea.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 7:18 AM
To: 'mapserver-users@lists.gis.umn.edu'
Subject: [mapserver-users] Oracle spatial connection binary


Hello everyone,

I've been testing Mapserver for some days now and am very enthusiastic about
its usage and performance. I've downloaded the windows binaries from
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/win32binaries.html and did my tests with
shapefiles. I'd also like to test Mapserver with data from Oracle Spatial
8.1.7. Does anyone know if there is a windows binary available which support
input from Oracle?
If there isn't a binary available I am going to try to compile it on windows
myself. Because it's strongly recommended to use one of the precompiled
binaries I hope there is one with Oracle Spatial input. 

Thanks in advance,

Merlijn Simonse