[mapserver-users] editing shp files

Lowell.Filak lfilak at medinaco.org
Tue Jul 30 12:31:31 EDT 2002


In the directory where mapserver was compiled you should see a shptree
executable that will create the indexes needed/used by mapserver.
Lowell

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, David Turover wrote:

> 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.
>




More information about the mapserver-users mailing list