[mapserver-users] zipped shapefile

[Jeff McKenna]

I'm also unable to get this to work.  I agree that it should (with the 
layer specified in the "DATA" statement), but I can't seem to get 
MapServer 7.0.1 to draw a map.  The error message is quite generic:

   OGROpen(/vsizip/test.zip)
   msOGRFileOpen(): OGR error. Open failed for OGR connection in layer 
'test'.  File not found or unsupported format.


I believe you have found a nice enhancement.  I think you should file 
this in the issue tracker: https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues


-jeff



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Jeff McKenna
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On 2016-06-22 5:57 PM, lagrange123 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a bunch of shapefiles in zip format for disk space reasons. And I
> want to be able to server their contents with mapserver. Is this possible?
>
> I was thinking that I could use CONNECTIONTYPE OGR. And then, since gdal/ogr
> can read a zipped data source (per
> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/UserDocs/ReadInZip), this would enable
> mapserver to serve such a data source. However, I am not having much luck,
> and I don't know if this is even supported in mapserver.
>
> My layer definition is:
>
> LAYER
> 		NAME "my_shapefile"
> 		CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
> 		CONNECTION "/vsizip/path/to/file.zip"
> 		TYPE POLYGON
> 		STATUS ON
> END
>
>
>