[gdal-dev] Shapefile with one feature and many incrementally-added vertices is huge

[Nik Sands]

Thanks Guys,

I appreciate the great responses, and particularly implementing an
update for this edge case.

Unfortunately, I'm stuck with GDAL 1.x for now (have yet to figure out
how to get 2.x to build for iOS, but will take another look some
time).

As for alternatives to Shapefiles, my preference is for
SQLite/Spatialite, but I'm having other problems with that at present
(haven't defined the problems well enough to post a query here yet).

I will take a look at GeoPackage.  I'm not familiar with this format.

Cheers,
Nik.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Keller" <sfkeller at gmail.com>
To:"Even Rouault" <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
Cc:"gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org" <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent:Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:31:07 +0100
Subject:Re: [gdal-dev] Shapefile with one feature and many
incrementally-added vertices is huge

 @Even: Great work!

 @Nik: I would avoid using Shapefile in the first place.
 IMHO there are other formats which hare better suited for this use
 case, like e.g. GeoPackage.

 :Stefan

 2017-01-19 14:38 GMT+01:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:
 >> In that
 >
 >> particular case the writer could realize that we are editing the
last
 >
 >> geometry, so it could safely overwrite in place, but this isn't
 >> implemented
 >
 >> yet.
 >
 >
 >
 > Well, that was rather simple to implement. So fixed per
 >
 > https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6787
 >
 >
 >
 > Even
 >
 >
 >
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