Hi, You will do it with "ogrtileindex". Read http://www.mapserver.org/optimization/tileindex.html
-Jukka Rahkonen- Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: > On Sep 11, 2011, at 9:05 PM, JIAJIA WANG wrote: >> The data in the shapefile are suburb boundaries, but I got several > shapefiles, one shapefile for one state. I want a map showing the whole > country's suburb boundaries. > That's can be done by defining several layers (one layer reads one > shapefile) in one mapfile. But actually there are not conflicts between > these shapefiles. So I want to know is there any way to define only one > layer and read the data from all these shapefiles. > I am pretty sure (but not 100%) that you can have only one data source per > layer. That said, you could either combine all the shapefiles into a single > countrywide shapefile, or you could create separate layers, and then create a > layer group (I am pretty sure you can group the layers into one... its been a > long time, and I am just coming back to MapServer, so check the docs). That > way, all the different layers for different states will behave as if they are > a single layer. From the docs -- GROUP [name] Name of a group that this layer belongs to. The group name can then be reference as a regular layer name in the template files, allowing to do things like turning on and off a group of layers at once. > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:10 PM, jjwang wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I know that the DATA statement should be given a data source of the >> layer. >>> What if the data comes from multi shapefiles? >>> Can I give it a list of shapefiles and how to write it? >>> >> >> >> Generally a LAYER maps to a shapefile or a table in a db. It is hard for me >> to imagine how one layer could have data from two or more shapefiles. >> Perhaps more explanation would help here. >> >> _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
