[gdal-dev] Fastest vector format for combining shapefiles

[Vincent Schut]

Matt Wilkie wrote:
>> I'm by no way a vector expert, but for this kind of stuff I'd go the 
>> postgis way, at least for intermediate storage. 
>
> I've thought of this but have shied away from it because of the 
> overhead of installing postgis etc. just to get started. Time to get 
> over my shyness perhaps :)
Often there's a certain tradeoff between time spent to do things right 
from the start, and time spent to fix things later or do them the hard 
way, because you're stuck in some inflexible toolchain... :-)
>
> cheers,
>
> matt wilkie
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