[gdal-dev] Open source vector geoprocessing libraries?

[Jan Hartmann]

On 13-1-2010 2:33, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>
> OGR does not provide any spatial indexing layer common to various
> vector datasets. For many simple formats it performs the brute-force
> selection.
>    
>
Just curious, would it make sense / be possible to implement indexing in 
OGR, something like a
generalized version of Mapserver's shptree, the "quadtree-based spatial 
index for a shapefiles"?

http://mapserver.org/utilities/shptree.html

Jan