[mapserver-users] Any thoughts on combining 3 regional maps into one?

2013-10-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, I have 3 regional mapfiles for US, Canada and Mexico and I want to create a single North America map. Since the data comes from separate vendors and they refresh on different cycles, I'm trying to figure out the best way to structure this in a mapfile. I also need to maintain each

Re: [mapserver-users] Any thoughts on combining 3 regional maps into one?

2013-10-02 Thread Nahum Castro
Asunto: [mapserver-users] Any thoughts on combining 3 regional maps into one? Hi all, I have 3 regional mapfiles for US, Canada and Mexico and I want to create a single North America map. Since the data comes from separate vendors and they refresh on different cycles, I'm trying

Re: [mapserver-users] Any thoughts on combining 3 regional maps into one?

2013-10-02 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nahum Castro Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 11:31 AM To: Stephen Woodbridge; mapserver-users Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Any thoughts on combining 3 regional maps into one

Re: [mapserver-users] Any thoughts on combining 3 regional maps into one?

2013-10-02 Thread Pericles Nacionales
Steve, Have you thought about layer groups? Define a group for each Canadian, US, and Mexican data layers you want to combine... -Perry On Oct 2, 2013 10:54 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com wrote: Hi all, I have 3 regional mapfiles for US, Canada and Mexico and I want to

Re: [mapserver-users] Any thoughts on combining 3 regional maps into one?

2013-10-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 10/2/2013 12:30 PM, Pericles Nacionales wrote: My apologies, I didn't read your message close enough the first time... I guess regardless of how you do it, you'll have to create a new mapfile. Another thought is to define each layer in a separate mapfile and then using include to add each of

Re: [mapserver-users] Any thoughts on combining 3 regional maps into one?

2013-10-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Thanks for all the ideas. Here is a summary of the challenges in doing this: 1. data and tileindex content paths are relative the the shapepath so changing the data location relative the the shapepath is problemmatic. 2. data is not consistently presented when working with multiple vendors