drawing a route on an map image (MapInfo TAB file and ESRI Shapefile)

[Zhonghai Wang]

Hi All,

I've got some problems when I am trying to draw a route on an map image with
MapServer(Using C# API).

The routing results are provided by a third party application in an XML
format, this XML file contains all the required line segment IDs for the
route. In the vector layer containing the route line segments the segment ID
is the primary key of the attribute table, therefore I tried to make a query
using the line segment IDs specified in the XML file on the target vector
layer. Unfortunately this query process takes very long, I can not even get
any query results from MapServer, it seems that MapServer is crashed and
doesn't react any more. I've tried with both ESRI Shapefile and MapInfo TAB
file, but I still can not get anything encouraged me to continue it.

I am using the QueryByAttribute function to make the query. Here I have some
doubts and questions about QUERY in MapServer, hope that I can get some
hints from you guys.

1. if I use the MapInfo TAB file for query, does the spatial index of
MapInfo vector layer will be used during the query? if the query use the
primary key of the attribute table, will any query algorithm be implemented
for it? AFAIK, the index of the attribute table will be used if I make a
query in MapXtreme with the MapInfo TAB files, and this impressively speed
up the query performance.

2. if using ESRI shapefile as the query target, will any spatial index or
attribute index be used for the query?

there is something I must mentioned here:
the target vector layer is very large, more than 700MB, and the attribute
table contains about 5800000 records.

thanks for any advice.

Zhonghai
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