[mapserver-users] editing shp files

[Steve Lime]

MapServer does not support the proprietary ESRI index formats. It does
however support it's own
quadtree-based index. See the shptree utility for more information.

Steve

>>> David Turover <dturover at student.santarosa.edu> 07/30/02 10:01AM
>>>
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.