DBF file indexer?

[Trevor Banister]

I believe sortshp.c is included in the distribution, if you want to sort a
database on one of it's attributes. This is handy if you want to restrict
output to say, the largest 50 cities in the view. shptree.c makes a quad
tree spatial index that speeds map generation.
I think these are the only index schemes that mapserver supports. 

Trevor Banister
Banister Consulting and Online Services
Trevor at BanisterConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean O'Hagan [mailto:seano at metavera.com]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 4:38 PM
To: MapServer List
Subject: DBF file indexer?


Hello list,

Has anybody found a good utility for indexing those large DBF files that
store the attributes for shape files? Is there such a beast?

TIA,
Sean O'Hagan
Metavera Solutions, Inc.
192 Spadina Ave., Suite 405
Toronto, ON
M5T 2C2
Tel: (416) 504-8351
Fax: (416) 364-2636
Email: seano at metavera.com