[mapserver-users] Starting with TIGER Line Data and MapServer

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Monali Lodha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are working on displaying the TIGER Data using MapServer.
> This is our first time with MapServer, and we would appreciate your
> help in the following areas:
> 1. We could run the Itasca Demo Application. However, we could not
> integrate our shapefiles with the sample Mapfile. We have read the
> Mapfile documentation at the MapServer site. Any pointers on creating
> Mapfile?

IIRC, Itasca Demo data is in some State Plain projection and Tiger 
Shapefiles are in geographic (unprojected) state.

> 2. We have chosen a single state for our initial demo. However, the
> number of shapefiles is almost 300. How should we incorporate all
> these in the Mapfile?

Look at using TILEINDEX

http://mapserver.org/optimization/index.html#optimization

> Any suggestions are welcome.
> Thanks.
> 
> Monali
> Monali
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