The tileindex is used in a layer like you have shown below.
Your map image is "built-up" from the layers in the mapfile. The first
layers are drawn into the output image first and so on through the
mapfile. So if you want your images to be the background of the image
then put that layer first in the mapfile and all other layers will be
drawn on top of that.
Also for directory paths, I think it is best if you lay them out
something like:
/path/to/data/
/path/to/data/nztm/...
then:
cd /path/to/data/
gdaltindex 250k_index.shp nztm/250Kfiles/*.tif
shptree 250k_index.shp
adjust the paths as appropriate. Then in your mapfile
DATAPATH "/path/to/data"
...
LAYER
...
TILEINDEX "250k_index"
basically start out putting all your tileindexes in /path/to/data and
putting all your data in sub directories. This is a simple setup and
should always work, so start like this. Then you can experiment with
moving directories and tileindexes around. The reason for this is that
the rules for how mapserver finds files is not always obvious and
sometimes requires reading the code or a little simple experimentation
to get it right.
-Steve
MeLv1n wAuRaN wrote:
Ok so basically it is done right? it created sample_index.dbf,
sample_index.shp, and sample_index.shx. Now, which file should i load
into the .MAP as my basemap?
An example from Robert Sanson:
LAYER
NAME nz250ktm
GROUP "Toposcans"
TYPE RASTER
STATUS ON
TILEINDEX ../data/nztm/250k_index
TILEITEM Location
MAXSCALE 300000
MINSCALE 75000
well, this is a layer right? what i mean is, this tile index will be the
basemap of the map instead of a layer, for example llike:
MAP
NAME "..........."
STATUS ........
EXTENT ....................
IMAGETYPE ........
SIZE ..............
SHAPEPATH "......................."
IMAGECOLOR .........
.........
.........
.........
END
or is this tileindex supposed to be a layer instead of a basemap?
--- On *Mon, 2/2/09, Stephen Woodbridge /<wood...@swoodbridge.com>/* wrote:
From: Stephen Woodbridge <wood...@swoodbridge.com>
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] problem with raster data..
To: death_knight0...@yahoo.com
Cc: "Robert Sanson" <sans...@asurequality.com>,
mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 12:26 PM
MeLv1n wAuRaN
wrote:
> i already included the gdaltindex path in the environment variable. But
another error occured, it said:
>
> "C:\ms4w\data\raster>gdaltindex sample_index.shp
sample*.tif
> ERROR 4: Unable to open sample_index.shp or sample_index.SHP.
> Creating new index file...
This error is ok, it is just telling you that the index file does not
already
exist and it is creating a new one. gdaltindex appends to an existing file
so
keep that in mind if you need to add to your tileindex.
> ERROR 4: `sample*.tif' does not exist in the file system,
> and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.
This says that there are no files in the current directory named sample*.tif
what does a dir command respond with?
-Steve W
> Unable to open sample*.tif, skipping."
>
> what do you think is the problem here?
>
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