Ed McNierney wrote:
Denis -
No, it cannot - it needs to be stored in a shapefile. The shapefile
holds both the list of the raster file names and the geographic bounding
box for each raster file. That's the "index" part - the shapefile
allows MapServer to use it as an index to quickly determine which raster
images in the layer may be needed for the current map-drawing request.
Raster files that couldn't possibly be needed are ignored.
Denis writes:
Does somebody know why the Raster Data Access documentation says in
the third sentence
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data/#rasters-and-tile-in
dexing
The list of files forming a layer can be stored in a shapefile
Can the file be store to something else than a shapefile?
Ed / Denis,
I believe the tileindex for rasters can be in a shapefile (directly
reference) or in any other supported datastore when referencing another
layer as the tileindex. I think there was some recent discussion of
folks using a Postgis layer for this for instance.
Best regards,
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