Displaying adjacent SHP files in MapServer? (converting from MapInfo)

[vishal nagpal]

--- "kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com"
<kreshna_iceheart at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Thank you, vishal! :)
Sorry for writing late, just got busy with some
report,
> However, I'm not really familiar with Tile Indexing,
> though. From what I read from here:
>
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/utilityreference/tile4ms
> 
> Tile Indexing enables MapServer to automatically
> position of multiple shapefiles, according to their
> vector coordinate relative to each other, am I
> correct? Thus, I don't have to manually configure
> which particular shape file should be positioned
> next
> to another shape file, etc, etc, do I?
> 
> If that's the case, then I'm glad to hear it,
> because
> manually positioning each shape file is of course a
> nightmare. O_O
>
Yes you are correct you don't have to do it manually.
It is automatically taken care of by tileindexing if
the information is part of your shp file.
> I still have concerns, though: my shapefiles will be
> converted from MapInfo's .TAB files. Assuming that
> MapServer's will automatically put each shapefile,
> based on their coordination relative to each other,
> will there be innacuracies due to converting from
> MapInfo? For example, will there be a slight
> overlapping between Province, that needs to be
> eliminated by hand-tuning? (pardon my paranoia
> because
> I'm a newbie)
I don't think their should be any accuracies. You can
however find the information about your files using
ogrinfo or gdalinfo, and use that information. You can
also amend or add the information by using wld file.
> 
> 
> Also, is there any set of downloadable shapefiles
> for
> tutorial purpose, specifically for Tile Indexing
> tutorial?
Sorry i am not having any sample data that can be
shared but I am sure there must be some aailable
online.
> 
> 
> Many, many thanks again,
> -Kresh
All the best,
Vishal
> 
> 
> 
> --- vishal nagpal <vishu_73ns at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> 
> > Yes it is possible to join several shape files
> using
> > tile indexing. 
> > It will not be difficult once you are familiar
> with
> > the basic functioning of Mapserver
> > This is what I know and have been doing,
> > All the best,
> > Vishal
> > --- Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
> > <kreshna_iceheart at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm a MapServer newbie, and I'm to show a GIS
> map
> > of
> > > a country using 
> > > MapServer.
> > > 
> > > The source is MapInfo, and the country's map is
> > > actually made of several 
> > > adjacent .TAB files (each .TAB file consists a
> > > Province) instead of  a single 
> > > TAB file.
> > > 
> > > I'm going to convert those MapInfo files into
> ESRI
> > > SHP files.
> > > 
> > > My question is:
> > > 
> > > (1) Can MapServer display several adjacent SHP
> > files
> > > as a single map, like what 
> > > MapInfo does with those multiple TAB files?
> > > 
> > > (2) Is it difficult or complex to do the #1
> above?
> > > Is it time-consuming? 
> > > Development time is my concern here, especially
> > > since I'm not going to display 
> > > every details of the original MapInfo maps
> --only
> > > those relevant to public 
> > > information needs.
> > > 
> > > (3) Will it be better to combine those multiple
> > > MapInfo TAB files into a single 
> > > large TAB file, and then convert it to SHP file
> to
> > > be displayed by MapServer?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Kresh
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >      
> >
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