Displaying adjacent SHP files in MapServer? (converting from MapInfo)

[vishal nagpal]

Yes it is possible to join several shape files using
tile indexing. 
It will not be difficult once you are familiar with
the basic functioning of Mapserver
This is what I know and have been doing,
All the best,
Vishal
--- Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
<kreshna_iceheart at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a MapServer newbie, and I'm to show a GIS map of
> a country using 
> MapServer.
> 
> The source is MapInfo, and the country's map is
> actually made of several 
> adjacent .TAB files (each .TAB file consists a
> Province) instead of  a single 
> TAB file.
> 
> I'm going to convert those MapInfo files into ESRI
> SHP files.
> 
> My question is:
> 
> (1) Can MapServer display several adjacent SHP files
> as a single map, like what 
> MapInfo does with those multiple TAB files?
> 
> (2) Is it difficult or complex to do the #1 above?
> Is it time-consuming? 
> Development time is my concern here, especially
> since I'm not going to display 
> every details of the original MapInfo maps --only
> those relevant to public 
> information needs.
> 
> (3) Will it be better to combine those multiple
> MapInfo TAB files into a single 
> large TAB file, and then convert it to SHP file to
> be displayed by MapServer?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Kresh
> 



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