[Gdal-dev] Shapefile spatial indexing

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:21:13 +0100 (CET), bartvde at xs4all.nl
<bartvde at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> great! Can the spatial indexes also be created using shptree or must one
> use the SQL CREATE SPATIAL INDEX syntax?

Bart,

You can create them with shptree as well.  One of my objectives
was to ensure the format was 100% compatible between mapserver
and ogr.  I also adapted Steve's code for reading, writing and
scanning them.
 
Best regards,
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