[MapServer-users] [EXTERNAL] Vector tileindex with connectiontype OGR

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

We are using the ”layer-as-a-tileindex” method right now with a bit older Mapserver version and with native POSTGIS connection type. In the orthophoto layer we use

LAYER
        GROUP "ortokuva"
        NAME "ortokuva_r16"
        STATUS ON
        TILEINDEX "ortokuva_r16_postgis_tileindex"
        TILESRS "crs"

and in the "ortokuva_r16_postgis_tileindex" layer

LAYER
        NAME "ortokuva_r16_postgis_tileindex"
        STATUS ON
        TYPE POLYGON
        UNITS METERS
        SIZEUNITS PIXELS
        CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS
        CONNECTION "dbname=db user=user password=password"
        DATA "the_geom from (SELECT fid, '/beginning/of/path/'||location as location, crs, resolution, the_geom FROM ortokuva_16m) as subquery using unique fid"

I hope that this still works with Mapserver 8. It would be nice if you could make a test and compare OGR vs POSTGIS connection types.

-Jukka Rahkonen-


Lähettäjä: Peter Schmitt <pschmitt at gmail.com>
Lähetetty: torstai 8. joulukuuta 2022 2.32
Vastaanottaja: Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
Kopio: Rahkonen Jukka <jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi>; Mapserver-Users (mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org) <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Aihe: Re: [MapServer-users] [EXTERNAL] Vector tileindex with connectiontype OGR

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 4:17 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com<mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com>> wrote:
How do I specify such a query using the OGR PG driver as a Mapserver layer to be used as a TILEINDEX of OGR vector files?
A potential solution would be to create a OGR VRT file that contains your SQL request, and reference that VRT file in the TILEINDEX

Brilliant!  This indeed works:

    LAYER
        NAME "vector_via_vrt"
        TYPE POLYGON
        TILEINDEX "
<OGRVRTDataSource>
    <OGRVRTLayer name='layer'>
        <SrcDataSource>PG:host='localhost' user='postgres' dbname='mydatabase' password='mypwd'</SrcDataSource>
        <SrcSQL>SELECT * FROM testtable</SrcSQL>
    </OGRVRTLayer>
</OGRVRTDataSource>"
        CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
        STATUS OFF
    END

and now requests like http://localhost:8000/wfs?service=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=getfeature&map=/app/mapfiles/test.map&typename=vector_via_vrt&OUTPUTFORMAT=geojson return the vectors pointed by the vector tileindex of vectors.  I will attempt to submit a PR to add this example to the docs when I can.

VRTs:  Is there anything they can't do!?

Cheers,
Pete
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