Improving Performance... {Scanned}

[Jelmer Baas]

Siki Zoltan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Probaly you use MS XP, there is a limitation, one program is limited to 
> use 2GB RAM only on a 32 bit system. On Xp 64 bit no memory limit (or 
> higher?).
> Try to create the spatial index on a linux box ;)
> 
> An other solution is to split your shape file into smaller tiles and 
> use ogrtindex to create tileindex. It may make faster your application.
> Make an index for each tile and for the tile index too. 

Though it's getting a tad offtopic, I'll try doing this. You're right, 
I'm running on Windows 2003 Server (32 bit). For the layers that DID 
convert, I found that most layers rendered faster with OGR and .TAB 
files than they did with SHP :-)

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Jelmer