Hi,
PostGIS is probably the best option for Geoserver but Mapserver has a feature that might be worth copying into Geoserver: vector tileindex. It works in a similar way than image mosaic in Geoserver. A shapefile (or some other vector source) keeps the footprints of the native vector files and it is used as an index. We have in our Mapserver a layer with 2315 shapefiles, total size about 700 GB and total number of features about 1.5 milliards (1500 millions) and it works pretty well through OGR tileindex and native shapefiles. I have no interest in dumping those 700 GB into PostGIS or Oracle. Read http://www.mapserver.org/input/vector/ogr.html, TILEINDEX with OGR.
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Ian Turton wrote:
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There is an OGR VRT format (http://www.gdal.org/drv_vrt.html) which you have to hand create (last time I tried anyway) and then use ogr2ogr to convert it back to a single shapefile for import. I would probably save myself the effort and dump the whole lot into PostGIS using a simple loop and either ogr2ogr or shppsql, just remember to leave creating the indexes until the end.
Ian
On 17 December 2015 at 11:58, Alex O’Ree <spyhunter99@…84…> wrote:
Yes, I want to import these…
http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/coordsys/grids/mgrs_100km_dloads.html
As well as the 1km sharefiles. We’re talking about 26026
shapefiles=3120. It’s basically a grid overlay that you would put on
top of a base layer. Each shape file is non-overlapping. Also at a
given zoom level, say OSM’s zoom < 10, I’d want the 100km files to be
shown, and beyond that, the 1km shape files. I have ogr running, but
what would be the recommended format to convert the files to, in order
bulk import them. I’m just looking for the easiest solution to do
this.On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Andrea Aime
<andrea.aime@…1107…> wrote:On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:22 AM, Alex O’Ree <spyhunter99@…84…> wrote:
I’m attempting to import a large collection of shape files and want
them all added to a specific map layer. I found the “import a
directory of shape files” feature in the create a new data store admin
page, but I’m not seeing an easy way to dump everything into a map
layer.All in a single layer? Does that mean they all have the same set of
attributes?
Anyways, no, we don’t have a way to support that.also, do we have support for esri geo databases?
No supported way, but you could try using the geotools OGR data store
(there is no plugin packaging for it, you’ll have to build from sources):https://github.com/geotools/geotools/tree/master/modules/plugin/ogr
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