Spatial Engine Shapefile

A spatial engine provides access to a service that can perform spatial operations, one of the available spatial engines is for a directory of Shapefiles.

The shapefile directory spatial engine will use sub-directories to give the shapefiles kind of schema. For example if the URL parameter points to a directory that contains a single shape file called RIVERS then the shapefile will be registered under the name RIVERS, but if the URL parameter points to a directory that contains another directory called WATER and under that directory there is a shapefile called RIVERS then the shapefile will be registered as WATER.RIVERS.

Namespace

urn:com.cohga.server.spatial.geotools#1.0

Tags

spatialengine

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Description
id	string	yes	Unique identifier
dbtype	'shapefiledir'	yes	The name of the driver to use, in this case Shapefile
url	string	yes	The URL that points to the directory containing the shapefiles
memorymapped	boolean	no	Enable/disable the use of memory-mapped io
createspatialindex	boolean	no	Enable/disable the automatic creation of spatial index
namespace	string	no	A namespace to associate with the shapefiles

Sub-tags

None

Content

None

Examples

	<spatial:spatialEngine id="spatialengine.shapefile">
		<dbtype>shapefiledir</dbtype>
		<url><![CDATA[file:/home/sforbes/data/spatial/demo]]></url>
		<memorymapped>true</memorymapped>
		<createspatialindex>true</createspatialindex>
	</spatial:spatialEngine>

	<spatial:spatialEngine id="spatialengine.shapefile">
		<dbtype>shapefiledir</dbtype>
		<url><![CDATA[file:G:\GIS\DATA\SHAPEFILES]]></url>
		<memorymapped>true</memorymapped>
		<createspatialindex>true</createspatialindex>
	</spatial:spatialEngine>