tileindex: sequence of attributes in individual shapefiles matter s

[Jeff McKenna]

and no error was thrown when generating the index?  I swear I've hit 
this same problem when one dbf had a different field, and an error was 
displayed.

jeff



Eijnden, B. van den (Bart) wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> today we encountered that the sequence of attributes of the individual
> shapefiles which were used in a tile-index are important. In 3 out of 4
> shapefiles the CLASSITEM column was the 3rd column, but in the 4th shapefile
> it was the 4th column, so that one did not show up in the map ....
> 
> Apparently Mapserver fetches attribute values based on a column index? Would
> it be better to fetch by name? Otherwise I think this requirement should be
> documented somewhere.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 



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