I think it simply references the include support in nginx core:
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpMainModule#include

It means you can have files that contain the map directives and use include
to include them into your configuration as needed.

- Merlin

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Resi Cow <resicow@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am looking at using Nginx and specifically the Map Module.
>
> http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpMapModule
>
> I have used the rewrite map stuff in Apache, and I know in Apache you can
> load a key / value pair list from a text file. I had assumed looking at the
> examples on the Wiki that the values needed to be included with the
> configuration, but then I noticed that at the end of the Wiki page on the
> Nginx Map Module there was this:
>
> include