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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi All,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm having some trouble creating a tile-index of DGN's, using php_mapscript (Chameleon). My tileindex is a shapefile. But I think the layer should be treated as OGR, yet the connectiontype seems to indicate it thinks it is a shapefile layer. According to my PHP log, it tries to open it as a shapefile, which obviously fails:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[20-Feb-2006 14:45:49] PHP Warning: [MapServer Error]: msDrawMap(): Failed to draw layer named 'DGNs'.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> in C:\chameleon\htdocs\common\wrapper\drawmap.php on line 560</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[20-Feb-2006 14:45:49] PHP Warning: [MapServer Error]: msTiledSHPOpenFile(): Unable to open a single tile to use as a template in layer DGNs.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> in C:\chameleon\htdocs\common\wrapper\drawmap.php on line 560</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[20-Feb-2006 14:45:49] PHP Warning: [MapServer Error]: msSHPOpenFile(): (c:/data/hongkong/10nwb.dgn)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> in C:\chameleon\htdocs\common\wrapper\drawmap.php on line 560</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[20-Feb-2006 14:45:49] PHP Warning: [MapServer Error]: msSHPOpenFile(): (c:/data/hongkong/10nwb.dgn)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> in C:\chameleon\htdocs\common\wrapper\drawmap.php on line 560</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[20-Feb-2006 14:45:49] PHP Warning: [MapServer Error]: msSHPOpenFile(): (c:/data/hongkong/10nwa.dgn)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> in C:\chameleon\htdocs\common\wrapper\drawmap.php on line 560</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[20-Feb-2006 14:45:49] PHP Warning: [MapServer Error]: msSHPOpenFile(): (c:/data/hongkong/10nwa.dgn)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> in C:\chameleon\htdocs\common\wrapper\drawmap.php on line 560</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I based my layer definition on </FONT><A HREF="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/ogr_howto/#tileindex-with-ogr"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/ogr_howto/#tileindex-with-ogr</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> :</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">LAYER</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> NAME "DGNs"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> TYPE LINE</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> STYLEITEM "AUTO"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> CONNECTIONTYPE OGR</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> TILEINDEX "dindex.shp,0"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> STATUS ON</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> CLASS</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> COLOR 150 150 150</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> END</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">END</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The DBF of the shapefile has 1 column, with these values:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">location</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\data\10nwa.dgn,0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\data\10nwb.dgn,0</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am using php_mapscript 4.6.1, with php 5.05. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regards,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jacob</FONT>
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