Newbie question

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Carl,

you need to create a tileindex for this with the gdaltindex utility.

See the following tutorial for more info (especially section Rasters and
Tile Indexing):

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/raster-howto.html

Best regards,
Bart

> Hi folks,
>
> just getting started with MapServer and the maplab tools. Managed to get
> MS4W installed and working but am trying to create a demo application
> for my organisation to encourage them to use MapServer.
> We have .tif files of our area (around 100 of these for our region at
> 1:10,000 scale) and a .tab file for each image, I have these all in one
> directory.
> Iam trying to display all of these as one continuous background so I can
> then add more specific layers over the top of it.
> Can I specify the whole directory as one layer in my map file?
>
> Thanks
>
> Carl
>