[mapserver-dev] Possible to use PostGIS as a TILEINDEX to shapefiles?

[Daniel Morissette]

Unfortunately too late for 6.0 as you had already figured out. However 
you could use OGR connections for your PostGIS tileindex and to read 
your shapefiles with the current version.

Daniel


On 11-04-27 08:42 PM, Brent Fraser wrote:
> I've used a PostGIS layer as a TILEINDEX to raster files, but it doesn't
> seem to work for pointing to shapefiles.
>
> And looking at mapshape.c at line 1901 it checks:
>
> tlp = (GET_LAYER(layer->map, tSHP->tilelayerindex));
>
> if(tlp->connectiontype != MS_SHAPEFILE) {
> msSetError(MS_SDEERR, "Tileindex layer must be a shapefile.",
> "msTiledSHPOpenFile()");
> return(MS_FAILURE);
> }
>
>
> mapraster.c has some logic around line 410 that seems more generic.
>
> I wonder if it would be possible to fix this for 6.0, or is it too late
> now that rc1 is out?
>


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