[fdo-users] SHP .qix

[Mateusz Loskot]

Dan Stoica wrote:
> The answer in no.
> 
> What are the .qix files?

Dan,

.qix is an extension used by spatial index for Shapefile [1] originally 
implemented [2] by Frank's Shapelib and used now by MapServer, OGR, and 
other projects.. It is used also in Quantum GIS.


[1] http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ShpTree
[2] 
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape/shptree.c

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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