[mapserver-users] draw polygons ordered by field ? (from File System)

[Daniel Morissette]

Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:
> 
> Is it possible  define an order on how the polygons are drawn ? Say for
> example to draw the polygons with field "RISK" 0 first, then with "RISK"
> =1 and so on...
> 
> I know that using PG we can use "Select * from XXX order by RISK"
> 
> Is there any way to do that using ESRI/MapInfo files ?
> 

Have a look at the sortshp utility:

http://mapserver.org/utilities/sortshp.html

Daniel
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