referencing location field files within shapefile within the same directory of the shapefile

Gregor Mosheh gregor at HOSTGIS.COM
Thu Apr 26 10:47:18 EDT 2007


> I ran gdaltindex referencing location field within shapefile within the
> same directory of the shapefile
...
> I found mapserver only displays (see layer below)
> when the location field within the shape file has the full path to the
> raster file,

Actually, the location field must be valid *from the mapfile directory*
So I prefer to cd to the mapfile's directory, then do the appropriate
gdaltindex from there, so I know I have the paths right.

If you were in the "data/" subdirectory when you ran it, and it found
"./foo.tif" then from the mapfile's point of view you entered "./foo.tif"
instead of "data/foo.tif" See?

-Gregor



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