Yes I think I can do it...I just don't know if this will make a performance
problem, but tileindex is built for that right? So if I open a map with the
extent that is inside the extent of one tiff file, it will read only that tiff
from disk right?
Is there a way to really find out which file is
why don't you just put all your hotspot tiffs into an image catalog
(strangely called 'tileindex' in mapserver). And then use this tileindex
shapefile for zooming to the desired initial extent, using the functionality
to start the application zoomed onto an initial extent (there was a posting
2 day