Mapfile uses different names for the physical file and the LAYER

[teleyinex]

Hi @eduardofpl

I've been working today with the timeline.map file and I've found that there are some minor issues that we have to fix:

• The files are located in a folder with a name timeline
• The files in the folder have the following name: FAS_Brazil7.2011358.terra.250m.tif
• The LAYERs name are the following: dec2011358

The main problem is that the logic for the names is not consistent and it will be difficult for the timeline application to know for example if the files belong to December or January, as in the file names there is no clue at all about that (unless you compute the day of the month). Thus, my proposal is the following:

• For the files that you have downloaded, the script should create the following structure to serve them lately:
  • Folder for the images: FAS_BRAZIL7
  • File names for the TIF images: dec2011358.terra.250m.tif
  • Name for the Layer: dec2011358 (we can include if we want here also the terra.250m if needed)

This will simplify the application code. Another option could be to complete remove the month from the name, as we will know the day of the year and the year, so we can compute, if needed, the final date. Thus, what do you think about making these changes?

[eduardofpl]

Hi @teleyinex

Yes, it is possible to make these changes. And I also think that we can discard the month name from the file name. It's not difficult to create a function to determine the month based on the Julian day (even for leap-years).

I'll start to work on then ASAP.

[teleyinex]

Perfect! Let me know when the changes are done (also for the real mapfile) so I can add that logic to the application!

[eduardofpl]

Hi @teleyinex

Changes done (sorry about the delay but we are facing power issues here).

Summary of changes:

• Folder for images: /home/forestwatchers/map/geotif/FAS_BRAZIL7
• File names for the TIF images: 2011358.terra.250m.tif
• Name for the Layer: 2011385

Obs.: So far I made these changes by hand. I'll prepare a script to make that automatically to every downloaded image.

By the way, when you said "real mapfile" you mean the mapfile that is set in the virtual server, which now is example2.map?