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[Ed McNierney]

John -

All of the shapefiles indexed together in a TILEINDEX group need to have the same LOCATION field in the same position in all files.  I would expect any automated utility to produce the same fields in each output file, but could you be mixing different shapefile types in one index?  You can use dbfdump to look at the fields in the files that do work and compare them to the one that causes the error.

        - Ed

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-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of John Bolster
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:20 AM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] error message

Hello,

Does anyone know what "DBF fields do not match" means in the output from tile4ms?

Do they not match to one another, or to a certain way they're meant to be, or to the shapefile, or what? The files were created with tgr2shp so I don't see why they should be bad. And what would I do about this--I can't imagine I'm the only person to whom this has happened.

Thanks for your help,
John Bolster