[mapserver-users] zipped shapefile

[Jeff McKenna]

I've added these examples into a new document named "Virtual File 
System": http://mapserver.org/input/virtual-file.html

-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/

On 2016-06-23 9:52 AM, Ben Grange wrote:
> Thanks for the speedy replies, guys. I have it working now. For me the
> issue was the product of (1) using a relative path, and (2) using the
> wrong TYPE. Silly me!
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 7:34 AM Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     On 2016-06-23 3:49 AM, Even Rouault wrote:
>     >
>     > Definitely not in the DATA that must be a layer name or SQL
>     SELECT, but in CONNECTION.
>     > It is important to put the absolute path, as the SHAPEPATH
>     directive will have no effect on
>     > a /vsizip/ filename. As Mike raised, it is recommended to put the
>     filename of the shape too.
>     > (you may omit it if the .shp is at the root of the .zip and
>     there's no other "extra" file than the ones
>     > expected for a shapefile. When you omit it, the zip is recognized
>     as a directory and it is the
>     > same logic as doing ogrinfo on a directory that is applied. Will
>     work with directory of shapefiles
>     > and .tab/.mif for example)
>
>     Thank you Even, my issue was the full path requirement.  I will document
>     this now.
>
>     Below is my working layer (with MS4W 3.1.4 / MapServer 7.0.1) :
>
>     LAYER
>        NAME "testzip"
>        TYPE POLYGON
>        STATUS ON
>        CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>        CONNECTION "/vsizip/D:/ms4w/apps/test/test.zip"
>        DATA "test"
>        CLASS
>          NAME "test"
>          STYLE
>            COLOR 240 240 240
>            OUTLINECOLOR 199 199 199
>          END
>        END
>     END # layer
>
>     -jeff
>
>