Hi, I'm a MapServer newbie, and I'm to show a GIS map of a country using MapServer.
The source is MapInfo, and the country's map is actually made of several adjacent .TAB files (each .TAB file consists a Province) instead of a single TAB file. I'm going to convert those MapInfo files into ESRI SHP files. My question is: (1) Can MapServer display several adjacent SHP files as a single map, like what MapInfo does with those multiple TAB files? (2) Is it difficult or complex to do the #1 above? Is it time-consuming? Development time is my concern here, especially since I'm not going to display every details of the original MapInfo maps --only those relevant to public information needs. (3) Will it be better to combine those multiple MapInfo TAB files into a single large TAB file, and then convert it to SHP file to be displayed by MapServer? Thanks, -Kresh
