Yes it is possible to join several shape files using
tile indexing.
It will not be difficult once you are familiar with
the basic functioning of Mapserver
This is what I know and have been doing,
All the best,
Vishal
--- Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
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