[mapserver-users] Layer with over 6000 shapefiles

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 1/29/2014 11:37 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> On 1/29/2014, 12:32 PM, EVANS, JAMES R GS-13 USAF ACC 84 RADES/SCZE wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there a way to add a layer that points to 6000 some odd shapefiles?  I've created a set of contour files for the whole world, and when I had the info in a single shapefile it was about 260GBs.  Mapserver would serve it up, but performance was horrible.  I now have the set broken up into about 6000 separate shapefiles, but don't know how to address that in a single layer.  I tried using gdaltindex, to create a single index file that points to all the other shapefiles, but I get an error saying the shapefiles are an unsupported type.  Is there some other way to create an index that Mapserver can use to point to this many shapefiles?
>> Thanks,
>> James
>>
>
> You can use the MapServer "tile4ms" utility
> (http://mapserver.org/utilities/tile4ms.html).  There are some good
> examples on that page for you to follow.

Check the results from tile4ms with shpdump and make sure that you dont 
have all null shapes. I have run into this on Ubuntu. I believe in both 
the packages and compiling for source. I haven't had time to run down 
what the issues are.

-Steve