Test for .dbf files
Thorsten Fischer
frosch at cs.tu-berlin.de
Tue Mar 27 03:20:45 PST 2001
Hello list.
I discovered that the .dbf files are in any circumstances neccesary
for the mapserver to draw a layer.
There seems to be a test if a .dbf file exists, even for
drawing plain polygon data. I understand that it might be
neccessary for drawing annotations, though it seems to prevent
me from getting annotation data from a database. If the .dbf
file is missing, plain polygon layers are not drawn.
It is possible to create a 0 byte name.dbf file for a name.shp file.
Drawing works fine then.
Is this a shapelib matter or a mapserver internal? Is this
even desired behaviour?
Thorsten Fischer
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