Creating a tileindex for 50000 files

[Ludwig Max Brinckmann]

I had just checked with the man for gdaltindex and it does not say so.
I think it is worthwhile amending this.


On 7/14/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Ludwig Max Brinckmann wrote:
> > I had thought along that line, but will that not create a new index
> > shapefile for every invocation?
> > I thought you would have to create a number of index shapefiles, then
> > combining their content later.
> >
>
> Ludwig,
>
> When given the name of an existing shapefile as the tileindex, gdaltindex
> will just append records to it.   So this should work.  I'm not sure if
> this applies to all of the tileindex creating programs for mapserver or
> not,
> but it does to gdaltindex.
>
> Best regards,
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