Yes, you should build indexes for them, but first you should reproject them to epsg:900913 and change the srs to match that projection in the xml files, if you want the fastest rendering.
The .sbn and .shx are ESRI specific extensions which are ignored by mapnik. Dane On Dec 2, 2010, at 12:57 PM, John Mitchell wrote: > Part of setting up open street map data for hosting is to get 5 shapefiles > but 2 of these shapes files (listed below) don't have an associated .index > file: > $ wget > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/10m-populated-places.zip > (1.5 MB) > > $ wget > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/cultural/110m-admin-0-boundary-lines.zip > (38 KB) > > > I noticed that these 2 shape files have 2 extra files .sbn and .shx which the > other 3 shape files don't have. > > Should I run shapeindex.exe against this 2 shape files or just leave them the > way they are? > > > Thanks, > > John > > > -- > John J. Mitchell > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
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