[mapserver-users] Bulk creation of mapfile

[Alex Lopes]

Thank you everybody who helped me. I'll study all the suggestions and post
here the complete source code of my solution.

Alex


2014-08-13 9:34 GMT-04:00 Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>:

> Definitely leverage mapfile INCLUDEs (http://mapserver.org/mapfile/
> include.html). In your case, each LAYER could be an include, and you
> could have a mapfile template file that your shell script writes those
> include layers into.
>
> I recently saw a presentation at FOSS4G-Europe from PropertyShark, who
> manages thousands of layers, using includes, and generates them through
> custom Perl scripts (you can read about that discussion, or contact them,
> through the recent Google+ discussion https://plus.google.com/communities/
> 103841604654304099367).
>
> -jeff
>
>
> --
> Jeff McKenna
> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
> http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
>
>
> On 2014-08-13 10:03 AM, Alex Lopes wrote:
>
>> Hi Everybody,
>>
>>
>> I need to create a script shell to build thousands of mapfiles based on
>> postgis layers.
>>
>> Which is the best way to accomplish this task?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
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