[mapserver-users] reverse the order of shapes of a layer

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2015-01-23 3:46 PM, Scout wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using phpmapscript with mapserver 6.4.1.
>
> I would like to be able to reverse the order of the shapes in a layer
> before drawing the map.
>

I imagine you could use the sortshp utility for this 
(http://www.mapserver.org/utilities/sortshp.html) or even ogr2ogr with a 
switch like:

   -sql "SELECT * FROM filename ORDER BY fieldname DESC"

-jeff



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