[mapserver-users] Ogrtindex and attribute data

[Rahkonen Jukka]

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> Lähettäjä: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Puolesta Jeff McKenna
> Lähetetty: 20. lokakuuta 2010 16:40
> Vastaanottaja: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Aihe: Re: [mapserver-users] Ogrtindex and attribute data
> 
> On 10-10-20 9:23 AM, Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
> >  And Jeff, do you hear me? I copied my settings from a
> > document http://mapserver.org/input/vector/ogr.html. 
> Obviously it should
> > be updated a bit. I should have read
> > http://mapserver.org/optimization/tileindex.html instead.
> 
> I can hear you.  I had just updated that document.  What is 
> wrong with 
> it?  Can you file a ticket for the parts that are wrong?  
> Please assign 
> the tickets to the "MapServer Documentation" component, thank you.
 
Hi,

Sorry, I can't tell exactly what is wrong. However, I cannot classify my layer with CLASSITEM/EXPRESSION if I am looking at a bunch of shapefiles through this tileindex definition:
LAYER
TYPE LINE
CONNECTIONTYPE OGR #commenting this line out makes classification to work
TILEINDEX "wildwater_tindex.shp,0" 
...

If I take out the CONNECTIONTYPE OGR line the classification works. However, I guess that it is only possible to leave out the line when working with shapefiles and not with other OGR formats. Do you think I should file a ticket and encourage someone to have a look why classification fails with the CONNECTIONTYPE line, and if it happens with most fresh Marserver version (I am still running 5.2.1)? It is probably too early to do anything for the documentation if we do not know what is the real issue.

-Jukka-