[mapserver-users] Any thoughts on combining 3 regional maps into one?

[Pericles Nacionales]

Steve,

Have you thought about layer groups? Define a group for each Canadian, US,
and Mexican data layers you want to combine...

-Perry
 On Oct 2, 2013 10:54 AM, "Stephen Woodbridge" <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have 3 regional mapfiles for US, Canada and Mexico and I want to create
> a single North America map. Since the data comes from separate vendors and
> they refresh on different cycles, I'm trying to figure out the best way to
> structure this in a mapfile. I also need to maintain each region as a
> separate mapfile. (I'm ignoring issues like data alignment over borders.)
>
> The reginal mapfile data is structure like:
>
> .../us/data/<shapefiles>
> .../us/us.map
> .../mx/data/<shapefiles>
> .../mx/mx.map
> .../ca/data/<shapefiles>
> .../ca/ca.map
>
> The shapepath for each mapfile is set to the local data directory. What I
> would like to avoid is having to change all the paths in the mapfiles to
> accomodate a change like:
>
> .../na/us/data/
> .../na/mx/data/
> .../na/ca/data/
> .../na/na.map
>
> It would be cool if I can change the shapepath in the middle of the
> mapfile so layers beyond the change would use the new shapepath, but I
> suspect that will not work.
>
> So it looks like my options are:
>
> 1. rewrite all the mapfile data pathes as I combine them into one new
> mapfile and maintain two copies, regional and na versions.
>
> 2. maybe create a new mapfile that loads each of the regions as a WMS
> client and overlays the adjacent regions. This will get served via mapcache
> so that might add some options for tile assembly.
>
> 3. other ideas????
>
> Thanks,
>   -Steve
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