Utilities

[Dylan Keon]

On 11/24/2004 10:40 AM, Bob Basques wrote:
> All,
>
> I've used the tileindexing utility a couple of times.   It there
> something available to actually tile up a large raster and or SHP file
> into the individual tiles?
>
> A combination program would be good too, where the tileindex is
> generated at the same time.

If you have access to ArcInfo, you can use the following AML to split a
raster into tiles:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CreatingTiles

Here is an Avenue script that will split a shapefile:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VectorTileIndex

There is also this:
http://xserve.flids.com/pipermail/gdal-dev/2004-September/007049.html
which I haven't played around with yet.

There may be some other "splitting" methods mentioned in the
mapserver-users archives...

For creating the tileindexes, use gdaltindex for rasters and tile4ms for
shapefiles.

--Dylan