[gdal-dev] Shapefile spatial index and updates

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Marco,

I have been working on this. http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2798

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Hugentobler Marco <
marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:

> Hi gdal/ogr devs
>
> In QGIS, there is a bug where updates to shapefiles are not displayed until
> the spatial index of a shapefile is recreated (
> http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1572).
>
> It seems to me that OGR does not update the index automatically when
> calling e.g. OGR_L_CreateFeature and then OGR_L_SyncToDisk.
>
> What I did is to check (in the ogr provider of qgis) if the shapefile
> already has an index file and, if yes, create a new spatial index. But this
> way, the whole index needs to be recreated, so I wanted to ask here on the
> list if you know about any more efficient and / or more elegant way to solve
> this problem.
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Marco
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Best regards,
-- 
Chaitanya kumar CH.
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