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Posted by Grail on February 11, 2005, 5:30 pm
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You might want to have a look at this:
http://www.manifold.net/mapserver/index.html and look at the AltFuelStations
example. Its based on the Manifold IMS, and it can do what you're looking
do with simple parameter SQL. It should work fine with MySQL.
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James Burn BSc, GIS(pg), AScT
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> I am building a system for the web and I need some functionality that i
> am not even sure if I need a GIS for. Maybe there's an easier way of
> doing this, or perhaps there is a GIS that does exactly what i need. I
> am kind of new to the GIS thing, so I would appreciate it if some one
> gave me a recommendation.
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> I would like to be able to:
> 1. Given a lat/lon point, find what city, and state (USA) or country it
> is in.
> 2. Given a city, find out what metropolitan area (MSA) it is in.
> 3. Given an address, find out what it's lat/lon is.
> 4. Assign every city/country some kind of numeric code to use when
> requesting information for that city/country.
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> I could possibly make some maps out of my data too. But, that will
> come later, right now i only want to do the 3 things above.
>
> The system i am building is in PHP and MySQL.
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> Is there a specific type of GIS that would work well for this purpose?
> And, I would rather free of course. Any suggestions?
>
> -d
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