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

[Brent Fraser]

Steve,

    Yes, I'll file a ticket (maybe even write some code!).  And the doc 
on TILEINDEX is a little light so I may add to that as well.

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser


On 4/27/2011 9:38 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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