[mapserver-users] Problems with MapInfo seamless tab files

[Daniel Morissette]

Anders Knudstrup Hansen LE34 wrote:
> 
> I'm having trouble getting my mapserver to work with seamless TAB datasets (MapInfo).... Are there anything special I should be carefull of when trying to use this feature???? My mapserver works fine with ordinary TAB files.
> 
> I'm wondering if the TAB files for the seamless layer should be in the same directory or something like that.... I've looked at the demo map file at dmsolutions, but that didn't help me....
> 


I don't think it is a requirement to have all the tiles in the same
directory.  I believe that the seamless TAB index file will store the
path to each tile if they are not all in the same location, so if the
seamless TAB dataset worked in MapInfo then it should be possible to
load it in MapServer.  

If you moved the seamless TAB dataset to a new location in order to use
it with MapServer, then maybe the problem is that it contained absolute
paths and those paths are no longer valid at the new location. 
Unfortunately I don't think there is an easy way to view the contents of
the sameless TAB index file directly in MapInfo to verify this.

Anyway, if you cannot get the file to load then I would be interested in
seeing a copy of your mapfile and seamless dataset to try to figure the
source of the problem and fix the bug if there is one.

Daniel
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