[mapserver-users] editing shp files

[David Turover]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Lowell.Filak wrote:
> I can quickly see two possibilities:
> 1) Create an index on the shapefile and things may speed up to an
> acceptable pace.


I hadn't heard of indexing shape files before, so I did a little googling 
and in the process found a doc which explains the makeup of shapefiles 
better than I did in a prior post:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~osa/gisatosa/howto/filetypes.html

I've also seen .prj files (projection) and .shp.xml (XML formatted 
metadata about your shapefile), which aren't mentioned on this page.

I don't think mapserver has support for sbn/sbx/ain/aih files, although I 
would love to be corrected.