[mapserver-users] Tigerline

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Ashley,

Structure your data like this:

/mapdata/tiger2k/{SS}/{SS}{CCC}/{files}

where {SS} is the state fips code
      {CCC} is the fips county code
      {files} are all the files for that state+county

I would also put boundary files that are larger than a county and other
datasets that cover the whole US in something like:

/mapdata/us
/mapdata/canada
/mapdata/mexico
/mapdata/oceans
etc

then create a tileindex for all the files under tiger2k and create
shptree indexes for the tileindex and the files in the other
directories. That should get you up and running!

You can see my version running with only the eastern half the US loaded
at http://swoodbridge.com/web2/nmap it is using 9 GIGS

-Steve W.

> Ashley Joyce wrote:
> 
> I have the mapserver demo version working properly and would like to
> use data from the tigerline site for the USA. I will start with one
> state at a time.... its heavy on space at around 3 -4 Gig. Can anyone
> give me some advice on where to get some help or point to some
> documentation for structuring the data files so it will work with
> mapserver.... I'm still new to this product and haven't quite got my
> head around all of it yet. I'm not very familiar with the GIS
> structure. I'm running on a linux machine with apache.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ashley Joyce