[mapserver-users] Bulk creation of mapfile

[Jeff McKenna]

Great Alex! You might add a new page to the MapServer wiki for your steps: https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki

-Jeff

On Aug 13, 2014 3:08 PM, Alex Lopes <alexlopespereira at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thank you everybody who helped me. I'll study all the suggestions and post here the complete source code of my solution.
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> Alex
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> 2014-08-13 9:34 GMT-04:00 Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>:
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> -jeff
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>> -- 
>> Jeff McKenna
>> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
>> http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
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>> On 2014-08-13 10:03 AM, Alex Lopes wrote:
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>>> Hi Everybody,
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>>> I need to create a script shell to build thousands of mapfiles based on
>>> postgis layers.
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>>> Which is the best way to accomplish this task?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
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