dealing with a large number of layers

[Yar Doroshenko]

Hi Guys,

I need a piece of advice:

I have around 60 shapefiles with Oklahoma county roads (1 shapefile per
county). What is the most efficient way to load them in Mapserver? I
obviously don't want to define 60 layers. Should I maybe put them into
MySQL and load only several shapefiles at a time depending on my XY
coordinates and zoom level? If yes, what is the best practice of passing
arguments to the mapserver? Would anyone have an example that I could look
at?

Feel free to e-mail me directly.

Thank you very much!!!


Yar