seamless layers

[Hunter, David - St. Louis Park, MN]

Yes, I am using GDAL/OGR.  It looks like I have to use the ogrtindex utility to create a tileindex file, instead of MapInfo Pro to create a seamless layer, correct?  Does the TILEINDEX entry in the .map file then refer to the tileindex.tab file, instead of a CONNECTION entry?

BTW, I haven't been able to access maptools.org since at least last Friday, are they having server or ISP problems?

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:06 AM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] seamless layers

David,

mapserver does this with tileindexes. You would (for shapefiles) 
typically create a tileindex which references all the street files from 
all the directories and then define a layer in the mapfile that 
references the tileindex. Mapserver then searchs the tilinex for files 
that need to be displayed and displays them all.

You have to set up a tileindex for each layer unless you want to get 
fancy, and all the files in the tileindex MUST have the same attribute 
columns presented in the same order.

I believe gdal has the same concept if you are using that.

-Steve W.

Hunter, David - St. Louis Park, MN wrote:
> I am using MapServer 4.4.1 CGI with Tomcat 5 and Windows 2000.  I am 
> experimenting with things, and producing some maps using MapInfo .TAB 
> files.  I cannot get seamless layers to work.  I googled on this and 
> found some threads that made it sound like it was possible to make them 
> work, what might I be doing wrong?
> 
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> When using MapInfo files, how is it best to set up large layers that are 
> normally county-based, such as streets or water?  Do you set up a map 
> file with thousands of county-based layers, or create one large national 
> street or water layer in MapInfo?  Seamless layers would be very nice to 
> use for this...
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> 
> *David S. Hunter*
> /Sr. Software Engineer
> Fidelity National Geographic Solutions
> division of Fidelity National Financial
> 5353 Gamble Drive, Suite 201
> St. Louis Park, MN 55416
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