Scenario

You have multiple Base Maps (such as historic maps of different years or scales) inside a root folder such as E:\iShareData\Maps\Historic.

The folder structure might be something like:

E:\iShareData\Maps\Historic\OS First Edition 10000\[tifs with tfw files]
E:\iShareData\Maps\Historic\OS Second Edition 10000\[tifs with tfw files]
E:\iShareData\Maps\Historic\OS Third Edition 10000\[tifs with tfw files]
E:\iShareData\Maps\Historic\OS First Edition 2500\[tifs with tfw files]
E:\iShareData\Maps\Historic\OS Second Edition 2500\[tifs with tfw files]
E:\iShareData\Maps\Historic\OS Third Edition 2500\[tifs with tfw files]

Instructions

Save the following as a batch file and place it in the "Historic" folder, as per the above structure.

Important

Make sure that you have the correct path to gdaltindex.exe and the correct extensions/formats for your image files. Adjust as appropriate.

REM iterate through each folder and sub folder in your root directory
FOR /D /r %%G in ("\*") DO (
	REM create a txt file named with just the folder name, not the whole path, with the full paths to all the image files in the folder
	dir /s/b %%G | find "tif" > "%%~nxG-index.txt"
	REM run gdaltindex.exe to create a shape file in the root folder, with the name of the sub-folder, using the txt file above as the optfile
	D:\Astun\Tools\OGR\gdaltindex.exe "%%G.shp" --optfile "%%~nxG-index.txt"
)

You can then use these shape files as the basis for your raster layers, following the configuration instructions in Configuring Raster Layers.

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