shp2tile question

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Don,

Like I said there is no magic number. If you are most showing all your
parcels most of the time then there is not value in having it tiled. One
of the MOST important performance issues is to make sure all your *.shp
files have a *.qix file.

Try a different set of tiling parameters and test it again.

Did you have *.qix on you original shapefile? If not go back to that and
add one (shptree file.shp) and see how it performs untiled.

-Steve

Don Deskins wrote:
> 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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> Don Deskins
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