<p dir="ltr">A long shot but does any of this help re Mac?</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://github.com/edzer/sfr/issues/40">https://github.com/edzer/sfr/issues/40</a></p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 20, 2017, 10:46 Nik Sands <<a href="mailto:nik@nixanz.com">nik@nixanz.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" class="gmail_msg">Thanks Guys,<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">I appreciate the great responses, and particularly implementing an update for this edge case.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">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 class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">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 class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">I will take a look at GeoPackage.  I'm not familiar with this format.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_msg">Nik.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">----- Original Message -----<br class="gmail_msg"><div id="m_-4123878492040074670origionalMessageFromField" style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228)" class="gmail_msg"><div style="font-weight:bold" class="gmail_msg">From:</div> "Stefan Keller" <<a href="mailto:sfkeller@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">sfkeller@gmail.com</a>></div><br class="gmail_msg"><div id="m_-4123878492040074670origionalMessageToField" style="font-weight:bold" class="gmail_msg">To:</div>"Even Rouault" <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>><br class="gmail_msg"><div id="m_-4123878492040074670origionalMessageSentField" style="font-weight:bold" class="gmail_msg">Cc:</div>"<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br class="gmail_msg"><div style="font-weight:bold" class="gmail_msg">Sent:</div>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:31:07 +0100<br class="gmail_msg"><div id="m_-4123878492040074670origionalMessageSubjectField" style="font-weight:bold" class="gmail_msg">Subject:</div>Re: [gdal-dev] Shapefile with one feature and many incrementally-added vertices is huge</blockquote></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
@Even: Great work!<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
@Nik: I would avoid using Shapefile in the first place.<br class="gmail_msg">
IMHO there are other formats which hare better suited for this use<br class="gmail_msg">
case, like e.g. GeoPackage.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
:Stefan<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
2017-01-19 14:38 GMT+01:00 Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>>:<br class="gmail_msg">
>> In that<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
>> particular case the writer could realize that we are editing the last<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
>> geometry, so it could safely overwrite in place, but this isn't<br class="gmail_msg">
>> implemented<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
>> yet.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> Well, that was rather simple to implement. So fixed per<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6787" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6787</a><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> Even<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> --<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> Spatialys - Geospatial professional services<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> <a href="http://www.spatialys.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.spatialys.com</a><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> _______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">
> gdal-dev mailing list<br class="gmail_msg">
> <a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="gmail_msg">
> <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev</a><br class="gmail_msg">
_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">
gdal-dev mailing list<br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev</a></blockquote></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">
gdal-dev mailing list<br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev</a></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span>Dr. Michael Sumner</span><br><span>Software and Database Engineer</span><br><span>Australian Antarctic Division</span><br><span>203 Channel Highway</span><br><span>Kingston Tasmania 7050 Australia</span><br><br></div></div>