Does Geoserver support Shapefile tiling? Meaning that I have multiple shapefiles that cover a geographical extent. I would like to render a map of the united states using all the Tiger dataset using the multiple shapefiles that they provide at the county level. Eventually I’ll use postGIS but I was curious as to how I would do it using just shapefiles.
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Alessandro Ferrucci ha scritto:
Does Geoserver support Shapefile tiling? Meaning that I have multiple shapefiles that cover a geographical extent. I would like to render a map of the united states using all the Tiger dataset using the multiple shapefiles that they provide at the county level. Eventually I'll use postGIS but I was curious as to how I would do it using just shapefiles.
Nope, there is no support for tiled shapefiles a-la mapserver
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Alessandro Ferrucci
<alessandroferrucci@anonymised.com> wrote:
Does Geoserver support Shapefile tiling? Meaning that I have multiple
shapefiles that cover a geographical extent. I would like to render a map
of the united states using all the Tiger dataset using the multiple
shapefiles that they provide at the county level. Eventually I'll use
postGIS but I was curious as to how I would do it using just shapefiles.
You should be able to get more or less the same effect by adding the
shape files as individual layers and then building a layer group that
contains all the individual layers.
If you really want them all as one "real" layer your best bet would be
to import the data into a database (e.g. Postgres) and merge the
datasets into a single table there.
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Not really, I don't think the data comes strictly as tiles anyway ?
You could load each Shapefile individually, possibly using a script and the REST interface, but I don't really recommend it. What we have done in the past is write a script that unpacks all the zip files, converts to psql and loads into a database. I personally have never done that for the entire US, but worked well for the tristate area.
(I would offer the script, but I think I just used "find" on the commandline).
-Arne
Alessandro Ferrucci wrote:
Does Geoserver support Shapefile tiling? Meaning that I have multiple
shapefiles that cover a geographical extent. I would like to render a map
of the united states using all the Tiger dataset using the multiple
shapefiles that they provide at the county level. Eventually I'll use
postGIS but I was curious as to how I would do it using just shapefiles.thanks!
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Yeah, the end solution WILL be to load the entire U.S. data into postGIS. I was just curious as to how it would work if one did not want to work with a database and just wanted to strictly use tiled Shapefiles.
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Alessandro Ferrucci
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Arne Kepp <ak@anonymised.com> wrote:
Not really, I don’t think the data comes strictly as tiles anyway ?
You could load each Shapefile individually, possibly using a script and the REST interface, but I don’t really recommend it. What we have done in the past is write a script that unpacks all the zip files, converts to psql and loads into a database. I personally have never done that for the entire US, but worked well for the tristate area.
(I would offer the script, but I think I just used “find” on the commandline).
-Arne
Alessandro Ferrucci wrote:
Does Geoserver support Shapefile tiling? Meaning that I have multiple
shapefiles that cover a geographical extent. I would like to render a map
of the united states using all the Tiger dataset using the multiple
shapefiles that they provide at the county level. Eventually I’ll use
postGIS but I was curious as to how I would do it using just shapefiles.thanks!
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Yeah, the end solution WILL be to load the entire U.S. data into postGIS. I was just curious as to how it would work if one did not want to work with a database and just wanted to strictly use tiled Shapefiles.
In case one wants that so badly, he would have to write a datastore that
can read the tiled shapefile structure (or find someone that can write
it).
Cheers
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