[Mapserver-users] Indexing of Shapefiles

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Darren,

You should build spatial indexes for all your shapefiles. this speeds 
up query and display.

find data_dir -name "*.shp" -exec shptree {} \;

should improve things. It assumes you are on Linux/Unix and the you 
have shptree in the path. shptree creates the mapserver spatial index 
*.qix and can be found in your mapserver build directory.

-Steve W.

On 5 Mar 2004 at 9:38, Darren.Cope at statcan.ca wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have several very large shapefiles that I wish to display.  Everything
> works fine, except that rending and querying take a _long_ time.  Does
> MapServer work with attribute indexes on shapefiles to speed up queries?
> Spatial indexes to speed up queries?  I have read about the TILEINDEX but am
> not sure how this applies to a single large shapefile.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Darren Cope
> Statistics Canada/Statistique Canada
> Geography Division/Division de la géographie
> Jean Talon 3D5
> Ottawa, Canada
> (613) 951-6461
> 
>