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

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

The only way I know of is to use the sortshp utility.

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

Best regards,
Bart

> Hi All,
>
> Reading a shapefile (ESRI/MapInfo) from FS with polygons overlapping. Each
> polygon is drawn with a different color based on a field called RISK.
>
> 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 ?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Sebastian E. Ovide
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