Tiger Shapefile tiling problem

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Jeff,

I use Debian also, and I just downloaded the tarbar and built mapserver
in my local directory and copied the utilities to ~/bin

If you create the tileindex on windows you may not be able to use it on
Linux as the path names may be different.

Also as for your file list, it should NOT have the "file:" on the front
and I would create the paths with a "/" instead of "\" and I would leave
the "C:" if this is your default drive. Does it work with the ".shp" on
the file names? if it does then just include them.

-Steve

Jeff Portwine wrote:
> I wanted to create a single layer for several states worth of Tiger
> shapefiles, and I remembered a thread a few weeks ago about using tiles to
> accomplish this.   I tried to follow the advice given then but I am
> having a
> few problems.   First of all, i'm running mapserver with a debian install
> and it seems that this install did not include tile4ms.   However, I had
> previously installed mapserver under windows xp and I found that I do have
> the windows binary for this utility so that's what I tried to use.
>
> I used the command:
> tile4ms data_dir.in tiger-roads
> where "data_dir.in" was a list of all the tiger .shp files with the full
> path to those files.
> If my file list does not include file extensions,  I get an error that
> looks
> like this:
>
> Aborted. Unable to open DBF:c:\tiger\all\CT_Fairfield_County
> Processed 0 of 1 files
>
> If the file list includes either the extension .shp or .dbf, I get the
> following errors:
> Aborted. DBF fields do not match for
> file:c:\tiger\all\VT_Orleans_County_Poly.shp
> Aborted. DBF fields do not match for
> file:c:\tiger\all\VT_Rutland_County_Poly.shp
> Aborted. DBF fields do not match for
> file:c:\tiger\all\VT_Washington_County_Poly.shp
> Aborted. DBF fields do not match for
> file:c:\tiger\all\VT_Windham_County_Poly.shp.....
>
>
> Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to properly use the
> tile4ms
> utility?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>