[mapserver-users] zipped shapefile

[Michael Smith]

You need to include the name of the shapefile in the DATA statement, eg
DATA "/vsizip/myzipfile.zip/shapefile.shp"

Mike

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Michael Smith

US Army Corps
Remote Sensing GIS/Center
michael.smith at usace.army.mil




-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users <mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf
of Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 6:46 PM
To: <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] zipped shapefile

>I'm also unable to get this to work.  I agree that it should (with the
>layer specified in the "DATA" statement), but I can't seem to get
>MapServer 7.0.1 to draw a map.  The error message is quite generic:
>
>   OGROpen(/vsizip/test.zip)
>   msOGRFileOpen(): OGR error. Open failed for OGR connection in layer
>'test'.  File not found or unsupported format.
>
>
>I believe you have found a nice enhancement.  I think you should file
>this in the issue tracker: https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues
>
>
>-jeff
>
>
>
>-- 
>Jeff McKenna
>MapServer Consulting and Training Services
>http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
>
>
>
>
>On 2016-06-22 5:57 PM, lagrange123 wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a bunch of shapefiles in zip format for disk space reasons. And I
>> want to be able to server their contents with mapserver. Is this
>>possible?
>>
>> I was thinking that I could use CONNECTIONTYPE OGR. And then, since
>>gdal/ogr
>> can read a zipped data source (per
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/UserDocs/ReadInZip), this would enable
>> mapserver to serve such a data source. However, I am not having much
>>luck,
>> and I don't know if this is even supported in mapserver.
>>
>> My layer definition is:
>>
>> LAYER
>> 		NAME "my_shapefile"
>> 		CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>> 		CONNECTION "/vsizip/path/to/file.zip"
>> 		TYPE POLYGON
>> 		STATUS ON
>> END
>>
>>
>>
>
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