ogrtindex and directory structure

[Aaron Racicot]

Not sure what environment you are in, but on Linux I do stuff like:

 find . -name "*.shp" -exec ogrtindex -f "ESRI Shapefile" tindex.shp {} \;

This will recurse from the current directory (i.e. mapdata) and find all of the shapefiles and add them to the new tindex.shp file.  

Hope this helps.

A

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-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Hunter, David - St. Louis Park, MN
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:11 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] ogrtindex and directory structure


I need to tile index several layers for 50 states.  If my directory structure looks like this:
 
/mapdata
            /AK
            .
            .
            .
            /WY
                        /wy001/Parks.shp, water.shp, etc.
                        .
                        .
                        .
                        /wy045/Parks.shp, water.shp, etc.
 
Is there any way to create tile index files at the /mapdata/ directory that point to all the /state/county subdirectories?  The ogrtindex utility doesn't seem to have the ability to recurse the directory tree.  I could copy all park files into a /mapdata/parks/ directory, I suppose, and then index all the files in the directory, but that would put several thousand files into a single directory, which is a bit unmanageable and ugly.  Anybody else come up with a solution to this problem?
 
David S. Hunter
Sr. Software Engineer
Fidelity National Geographic Solutions
division of Fidelity National Financial
5353 Gamble Drive, Suite 201
St. Louis Park, MN 55416
š Email: david.hunter at fnf.com
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