[mapserver-users] multiple shapefiles in single layer

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Joe,

I believe you want to use a tile index. See the utlities for a program
called tile4ms. Say you have a roads layer for every country, then you
can make a tileindex for all the roads file and then create one layer in
the mapfile and reference TILEINDEX instead of DATA. You can create a
separate tileindex for each kind of data set, like rivers, cities,
landuse polygons, etc.

-Steve W.

Joe Bussell wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
>     I am attempting to combine multiple shapefiles (data from different
> counties) into single layers.  How can I do this without declaring
> multiple layers which must be handled seperately in the mapfile?  Is
> there a standard method which will preserve the ability to querry
> the data?  The mapfile syntax does not seem to allow multiple data tags
> for a given display layer.  This leads me to wonder if there are tools
> which can merge shapefiles into a larger superset.  Is anyone aware of
> such a tool?
> 
> Joe Bussell
> On Time Systems