<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Thanks Guys,<div><br></div><div>I appreciate the great responses, and particularly implementing an update for this edge case.</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>I will take a look at GeoPackage. I'm not familiar with this format.<br><br>Cheers,</div><div>Nik.<br><br><blockquote><br>----- Original Message -----<br><div id="origionalMessageFromField" style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Stefan Keller" <sfkeller@gmail.com></div><br><div id="origionalMessageToField" style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"Even Rouault" <even.rouault@spatialys.com><br><div id="origionalMessageSentField" style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div>"gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" <gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org><br><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:31:07 +0100<br><div id="origionalMessageSubjectField" style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [gdal-dev] Shapefile with one feature and many incrementally-added vertices is huge<br><br><br>
@Even: Great work!<br><br>
@Nik: I would avoid using Shapefile in the first place.<br>
IMHO there are other formats which hare better suited for this use<br>
case, like e.g. GeoPackage.<br><br>
:Stefan<br><br>
2017-01-19 14:38 GMT+01:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com>:<br>
>> In that<br>
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>> particular case the writer could realize that we are editing the last<br>
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>> geometry, so it could safely overwrite in place, but this isn't<br>
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> Well, that was rather simple to implement. So fixed per<br>
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> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6787<br>
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