[Mapserver-users] Creating Shape Files

[thfischer@mapmedia.de (Thorsten Fischer)]

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 21:14, Aaron Kreider wrote:
> I'm trying to convert my data into a format that can be used by Mapserver
> (or more specifically Mapscript). The data currently resides in a regular
> mysql table.
> 
> Does Mapserver only use shape files? And if so, how do I create a shape
> file?

In case you are using a language like perl, php and so on, there will be
a dialect of mapscript available. MapScript has functions to read, write
and of course create shapefiles. If you are programming in C, you might
want to take a look at shapelib.


hth,

thorsten