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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm really interested in Tile Indexing (tile4ms) function of MapServer, and I'm actually going to work on adjacent SHPs. I just wonder --is there any adjacent SHP files to download, to practice the Tile Indexing function?
You can also just manually create a few shapefiles to play with.
This page: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/utilityreference/tile4ms/?searchterm=Tile%20Index mentions about TIGER Census data (which consists adjacent SHPs, isn't it?), but when I went to the download page, I didn't find the link (duh!).
Correct, TIGER will be releasing its data in shapefile format shortly though.
Also, the tile4ms function only create an SHP file that functions as "index", but in order to display the individual data contained in each SHP (polygon, line, etc), I still need to declare each SHP file (as layers) in my MAP file, do I not?
See section 4 of that page (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/utilityreference/tile4ms/). You use that index in that ONE layer, and MapServer will draw all of the associated SHP files that are 'indexed' in that one index file.
If you find a section of that page unclear please let me know and I can modify that page.
-- Jeff McKenna DM Solutions Group Inc. http://www.dmsolutions.ca
