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add example command to regenerate spatial indexes for shapefiles

springmeyer 2012-04-25 21:25:51 -07:00
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@ -51,12 +51,17 @@ The Mapnik2 API has advanced (requiring breakages) and the XML syntax has change
Therefore Mapnik2 is the [first release](MapnikReleases) with significant backward incompatibility. See [[Mapnik2_Changes]]
# Upgrade Guide
1. Recommended: rebuild shapefile indexes
1. rebuild all shapefile indexes
Say you have a directory of shapefiles in a folder named 'shapes'. Then you can regenerate all the indexes at once like:
2. upgrade stylesheets with a python script:
```
shapeindex shapes/*.shp
```
We have written a python converter to seamlessly upgrade your pre-Mapnik2 stylesheets to be fully compatible with Mapnik2.
2. Required: upgrade stylesheets
We have written a python converter to automatically upgrade your pre-Mapnik2 stylesheets to be fully compatible with Mapnik2.
After installing Mapnik2 you will have a new command available called 'upgrade_map_xml.py':