Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 18:40:49, Brent Wood a écrit : > This is less a mapserver issue than a data management issue - and > shapefiles are not a particularly good way to manage data. > > I suggest you look at a spatially enabled database, with attribute & > spatial indexes, such as Postgis, instead of shapefiles as a data source. > These are pretty much designed for such use cases. > > > That said, if you cannot use a spatial database in this case, you can do > things with mapserver to improve things - like have multiple layers > (though 6000 seems a bit excessive) in a single group - so addressable as > a single layer but each with its own shapefile spatial index file.
A spatialite DB with spatial index could also perhaps do it. Not sure if it scales well up to 260 GB however. > > Brent Wood > > > > ________________________________ > From: "EVANS, JAMES R GS-13 USAF ACC 84 RADES/SCZE" > <james.evan...@us.af.mil> To: "mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org" > <mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 5:32 AM > Subject: [mapserver-users] Layer with over 6000 shapefiles > > > Hi, > Is there a way to add a layer that points to 6000 some odd shapefiles? > I've created a set of contour files for the whole world, and when I had > the info in a single shapefile it was about 260GBs. Mapserver would serve > it up, but performance was horrible. I now have the set broken up into > about 6000 separate shapefiles, but don't know how to address that in a > single layer. I tried using gdaltindex, to create a single index file > that points to all the other shapefiles, but I get an error saying the > shapefiles are an unsupported type. Is there some other way to create an > index that Mapserver can use to point to this many shapefiles? Thanks, > James > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users -- Geospatial professional services http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users