shp2tile question

[Don Deskins]

Bart and Steve,

My shapefiles are showing up now... thanks!

Now I have a time problem... It seems to take more time to generate
the image than it did before.  I am checking for errors now.

Thanks again.

Don


On Apr 11, 2005 3:28 PM, Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> check the dbf of your generated tileindex (the LOCATION field). I usually
> use absolute paths in there. Are there absolute or relative paths to the
> files in there?
>
> Also use TYPE POLYGON. Are you zoomed in enough to have your layer showing
> up, since you are using a MAXSCALE setting?
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:24:45 -0400, Don Deskins <dldeskins at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Bart (and Steve),
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I have my files created and tried to reference this index in my map file:
> >
> >   ####################################
> >   # parcels
> >   LAYER
> >     NAME 'tileindex'
> >     TYPE TILEINDEX
> >     DATA '/path/to/tileindex'
> >     MAXSCALE 40000
> >   END
> >
> >   LAYER
> >     NAME 'SCAP_Cert2004_ParcelsUTM16M'
> >     STATUS ON
> >     TYPE POLYGON
> >     TILEINDEX '/path/to/tileindex'
> >     #TILEITEM 'LOCATION'
> >     MAXSCALE 40000
> >   END
> >   ####################################
> >
> > I get no error but my shapes are not showing up... do you see a
> > problem with the above map?
> >
> > Don
> >
> > On Apr 11, 2005 2:58 PM, Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It is tile4ms, not tile2ms, probably a typo by Steve.
> >>
> >> It is a Mapserver utility to make a tileindex. Alternatively, you can
> >> also
> >> use ogrtindex for vector layers and gdaltindex for raster layers.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Bart
> >>
> >
>
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