[mapserver-users] Tileindex question

[Ed McNierney]

Steve -

No, MapServer currently supports only one level of tile indexing - it
expects the pointer in the LOCATION field to be the data.

I'm not sure that multiple levels of indirection would be a good idea
from a performance standpoint, although it certainly has some benefit
from a data management perspective.  I have created some pretty big
tileindex files by feeding a whole directory tree into them.  Be sure to
remember to use shptree to create a spatial index on the tileindex file.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Woodbridge [mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:29 AM
To: MapServer List
Subject: [mapserver-users] Tileindex question


Can mapserver deal with tileindex entries that point to tileindex
entries and if so is there any special that needs to be done to get it
to work?  like:

world-tile.shp
  na-tile.shp
    cdn-*.shp
    mex-*.shp
    states-tile.shp
      {ss}{ccc}/*.shp
  sa-tile.shp
    {counties}.shp
  europe-tile.shp
    {counties}.shp
etc.

Or should this be done by feed all the *.shp in the directory tree into 
shptree file? or is there a better way that I have missed?

Thanks again for the help,
  -Steve