dealing with a large number of layers

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Yar,

This was just explained over the last few days in the discussion on how
to use TILEINDEXs for shapefiles. Please check the archive for the last
few days.

-Steve

Yar Doroshenko wrote:
> 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
>