Looking for public-accessible SHPs to practice Tile Indexing

[kreshna_iceheart@yahoo.com]

Sorry for the late reply, but thanks for the linky! :)

I still wonder though; does Tile Indexing support
MapInfo .TAB files?

-Krsh


--- Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote:

> take a look at ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/TIGER_2006_SE
> and snag the 
> various zip files.  That will give a number of TIGER
> shapefiles 
> available for such work.
> 
> gerry
> 
> kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com wrote:
> > I'm really interested in Tile Indexing (tile4ms)
> > function of MapServer, and I'm actually going to
> work
> > on adjacent SHPs.
> > 
> > I just wonder --is there any adjacent SHP files to
> > download, to practice the Tile Indexing function?
> > 
> > This page:
> >
>
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/utilityreference/tile4ms/?searchterm=Tile%20Index
> > mentions about TIGER Census data (which consists
> > adjacent SHPs, isn't it?), but when I went to the
> > download page, I didn't find the link (duh!).
> > 
> > Also, the tile4ms function only create an SHP file
> > that functions as "index", but in order to display
> the
> > individual data contained in each SHP (polygon,
> line,
> > etc), I still need to declare each SHP file (as
> > layers) in my MAP file, do I not?
> > 
> > Thanks & regards,
> > -Kresh
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
>
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