non-square shapefiles and tileindex

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ara T Howard wrote:
> i'm about to write code to dump out non-square shape files containing 
> complex
> shapes in them.
> 
> is there any reason i shouldn't expect this to work with the TILEINDEX 
> layer
> option?
> 
> sorry if i missed this in the docs - my searching hasn't turned up anything
> yet...

Ara,

I believe, but am not certain, that mapserver will end up just taking a
bounding box of the geometries in the shapefile anyways, so having exact
footprint polygons is not likely going to help with regard to mapserver.

But it should be harmless.

Best regards,
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