Creating a tileindex for 50000 files

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ludwig Max Brinckmann wrote:
> I had thought along that line, but will that not create a new index 
> shapefile for every invocation?
> I thought you would have to create a number of index shapefiles, then 
> combining their content later.
> 

Ludwig,

When given the name of an existing shapefile as the tileindex, gdaltindex
will just append records to it.   So this should work.  I'm not sure if
this applies to all of the tileindex creating programs for mapserver or not,
but it does to gdaltindex.

Best regards,
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