[gdal-dev] shapefile enhancements

[Jan Heckman]

Thanks for the info.
I'll look into GeoPackage!
Jan


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org>wrote:

> Le mercredi 30 avril 2014 22:02:34, Jan Heckman a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Extending shapefile capabilities: The one reason which might persuade
> > anyone is the still abundant use of shapefiles for dataexchange.
> > Shapefile does seem to play a vital role there. I don't know of anything
> > equally 'tradeable'.
> > However, an extension would also endanger the
> > interoperability/dataexchange, so little of this would work short of
> > definining a new shapefile variant specification, working title .shp2.
> > I can see the outlines, even though I doubt it will be possible to
> > introduce such a thing. The mods would not be that hard, though.
>
> I'm not sure there's a point in defining a .shp2 spec. The GeoPackage one
> can
> be thought as the "new shapefile".
> It should have all its main advantages :
> - spatial index
> - random access
> - binary encoding of geometries
>
> Plus a few nice features :
> - attribute indexes
> - database format, with SQL capabilities
> - binary encoding of attributes
> - extensibility
>
> Its history is admitedly a bit young, but the specification is already
> standardized and has begun to be implemented in various software packages,
> including OGR.
>
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