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

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Brent,

It would be good to bug this as it is a good idea and something that 
could potentially come out in a point release if it is not overly 
disruptive code-wise because it should be transparent to most operations 
(i'm guess as I have not dug into the code, and it might impact mapscript).

-Steve W

On 4/27/2011 11:02 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 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
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> 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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