[MapServer-users] "Emergency" map server on Raspberry Pi - raster/PNG source in folder structure

[Sven Schroeter]

that's exactly what I thought;-)
You can also do this with QGIS


Am 12.10.2022 um 16:57 schrieb Stefan Gofferje:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 10/12/22 16:37, Sven Schroeter wrote:
>> I don't know if I understood you correctly, but I think the solution 
>> for you would be an image catalog, right?
>> Then you would have only one layer for the UTM maps.
>> In the mapfile it would look like this, in the .dbf in the column 
>> "location" would be the paths to the png data.
>>
>> LAYER
>>      NAME "utm_data"
>>      STATUS ON
>>      MAXSCALE 8000
>>      TILEINDEX "filesindex_png.shp"
>>      TILEITEM "location"
>>      TYPE RASTER
>>      PROCESSING "Resample=average"
>>      CLASS
>>      name "utm_data"
>>      END
>> END
> Like here: 
> https://mapserver.org/input/raster.html#rasters-and-tile-indexing ?
> I'm still a total newbie to mapserver and haven't had much time to 
> tinker with it yet, unfortunately. But that looks easy enough.
> So, basically, I 'find' all pngs/pgws, move them from the subfolders 
> into one folder and run gdaltindex over the folder. And that creates a 
> shapefile which I use as data source? Let's try that.
>
> -S
>