indexed tif images do not display

[William E Reid]

My experience is that it IS relative to the SHAPEPATH directory (which 
can be be defined as relative within your mapfile... So yeah, confusing.

-=Bill


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On 6/22/05, Ethan Alpert <ealpert at digitalglobe.com> wrote:
> 
>>I think you need to rerun gdaltindex. I just did a dbf dump of mine and
>>realized that the paths to the tiles are absolute paths. Not sure if
>>there's a way to construct relative path tileindexes.
>>
>>Anyone?
> 
> 
> Ethan, 
> 
> gdaltindex will store the paths in the form they are passed in.  So
> if you want relative paths, use those on the commandline. 
> 
> eg. 
> 
> gdaltindex index.shp doq/*.tif
> 
> as opposed to 
> 
> gdaltindex index.shp /opt/data/doq/*.tif
> 
> Of course, it can be tricky to ensure that the relative
> paths in the index file are correctly interpreted by mapserver.
> I'm never sure if it interpretes them relative to the index file, 
> or the SHAPEPATH or what. 
> 
> Best regards,