[gdal-dev] Shapefile with one feature and many incrementally-added vertices is huge

[Michael Sumner]

A long shot but does any of this help re Mac?

https://github.com/edzer/sfr/issues/40

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017, 10:46 Nik Sands <nik at nixanz.com> wrote:

> Thanks Guys,
>
> I appreciate the great responses, and particularly implementing an update
> for this edge case.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm stuck with GDAL 1.x for now (have yet to figure out how
> to get 2.x to build for iOS, but will take another look some time).
>
> As for alternatives to Shapefiles, my preference is for SQLite/Spatialite,
> but I'm having other problems with that at present (haven't defined the
> problems well enough to post a query here yet).
>
> I will take a look at GeoPackage.  I'm not familiar with this format.
>
> Cheers,
> Nik.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> "Stefan Keller" <sfkeller at gmail.com>
>
> To:
> "Even Rouault" <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> Cc:
> "gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org" <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent:
> Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:31:07 +0100
> Subject:
> Re: [gdal-dev] Shapefile with one feature and many incrementally-added
> vertices is huge
>
>
>
>
> @Even: Great work!
>
> @Nik: I would avoid using Shapefile in the first place.
> IMHO there are other formats which hare better suited for this use
> case, like e.g. GeoPackage.
>
> :Stefan
>
> 2017-01-19 14:38 GMT+01:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:
> >> In that
> >
> >> particular case the writer could realize that we are editing the last
> >
> >> geometry, so it could safely overwrite in place, but this isn't
> >> implemented
> >
> >> yet.
> >
> >
> >
> > Well, that was rather simple to implement. So fixed per
> >
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6787
> >
> >
> >
> > Even
> >
> >
> >
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Dr. Michael Sumner
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