non-square shapefiles and tileindex

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ara T Howard wrote:
> thinking on this a bit more, i think what i need is a way to tell mapserver
> 
>   a) which pixels to consider null
> 
>   b) to use ALL coverages from my tileindex which cover the bbox NOT simply
>   the first
> 
> those two conditions should result in a dynamic mosaicing effect.
> 
> anyone done that?

Ara,

Yes, I do that frequently.  Note that all items from the tileindex that
touch the map request area *are* rendered.

Best regards,
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