<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 26, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Michael Smith wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Jeff,<br><br>You could just add them as separate layers with a common layername (or group<br>name). <br><br>Mike<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Thats what we will do with Mapnik, which has no notion of a tileindex.</div><div><br></div><div>- Dane</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On 7/26/10 2:49 PM, "Jeff McKenna" <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Iván,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In order to display the 8 contour shapefiles efficiently in MapServer, a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">tile index file must be generated. MapServer requires the files in a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">tile index to have the exact same attribute definitions and they must me<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in the same order.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In our full vector dataset this is not the case: contour-5, contour-6,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">contour-7 files contain different fields. Here is a sample:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">***<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">contour-4.dbf<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ID: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ELEMENTO: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ID_SIMPLE: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">MODIFICADO: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ID_HOJA: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ID_CODE: String (6.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">METADATO: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">F_ALTA: String (10.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">F_BAJA: String (10.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ETIQUETA: String (254.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ETIQUETAS: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ETIQUETA1: String (10.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">SIMPLE: String (250.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ETIQUETA0: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">PROYECTO: String (3.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">LONGITUD: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">PERIMETRO: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">SUPERFICIE: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">TIPO_0201: String (6.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">CATEG_0201: String (6.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ORIGE_0201: String (6.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">COTA_0201: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">NNECCCPP: String (8.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ORIGEN_Z: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">contour-5.dbf<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ID: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ID_SIMPLE: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">MODIFICADO: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ID_HOJA: Real (11.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ID_CODE: String (6.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ID_MET: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">F_ALTA: String (10.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">F_BAJA: String (10.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ETIQUETA: String (254.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ID_COD_ETI: String (10.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">PROYECTO: String (3.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">TIPO_0201: String (2.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">CATEG_0201: String (2.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ORIGE_0201: String (2.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">COTA_0201: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">NNECCCPP: String (8.0)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ORIGEN_Z: Real (31.15)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The contour files must be re-processed so that they contain the same<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">attributes, and then provided to all benchmarking teams.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-jeff<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Benchmarking mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Benchmarking@lists.osgeo.org">Benchmarking@lists.osgeo.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/benchmarking">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/benchmarking</a><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Benchmarking mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Benchmarking@lists.osgeo.org">Benchmarking@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/benchmarking<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>