Frank Warmerdam wrote:
I haven't dug into this, but I think MapServer pulls the features from
the shapefile in the order they are identified traversing the spatial
index. This *could* mean relatively random fetching depending on the
spatial coherence (or lack thereof) of the records in the shapefile.
Frank,
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that MapServer reads the
shapes in the shapefile order all the time. If a .qix file is present,
then an array of bits is used to tag the shape ids to load, and then the
shapes are read in order of shape id.
Daniel
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