[Mapserver-dev] mapindex.c

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

What is the code in mapindex.c for?  From a review, I get the impression it
is some sort of spatial indexing for shapefiles based on a fixed grid size
(as opposed to the quadtree approach of maptree.c).  Is it still used?  If
not should it be removed from the tree?

I am implementing more complete support quadtrees for spatial searches in
shapelib, and will use the "new" .qix format for compatibility with mapserver.
I will be incorporating support for this into OGR so I can have spatial searches
in OGR nearly as fast as MapServer.

Best regards,
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