[gdal-dev] Cloud Optimized Vectors?

[Even Rouault]

On mardi 16 janvier 2018 13:01:39 CET Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Cloud optimised tiffs hosted on a HTTP file server work pretty well without
> a need to set up a special tile/WMS/WCS server
> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/CloudOptimizedGeoTIFF
> 
> That made me think that how would a Cloud Optimized vector format look like?
> Obviously it should offer fast access to spatial index which delivers
> offsets to data records of perhaps spatially organized chunks of data. Or
> is there already some format that suits relatively well for BBOX based
> queries over HTTP?

I guess shapefiles with qix should not be too bad.
GeoPackage could probably do too
For display purposes, MapBox Vector Tiles as Z/X/Y hiearchy of files should also work. By the 
way, I'm currently developing the read side of a OGR MVT driver.

Even

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