<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thanks Even for your suggestion and Jukka for timings from Finland. <br><br>1. I tried Even's suggestion:  gdal-master channel on conda :  <a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/download.html#gdal-master-conda-builds">https://gdal.org/en/latest/download.html#gdal-master-conda-builds</a> : Result:</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <u>works very well :)</u>   </span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12px">    Timing: 
</span></span></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12px">AWS_NO_SIGN_REQUEST=true CPL_VERBOSE=ON CPL_DEBUG=ON ogr2ogr -f GPKG  -spat    1.34s user 0.59s system 5% cpu </span><u style=""><font size="4">35.534</font></u><span style="font-size:12px"> total</span></span></font></div></blockquote><div>2. For full log : <a href="https://pastebin.com/Jv7gyP5A">https://pastebin.com/Jv7gyP5A</a><br>3. Note the gdal version : <ol class="gmail-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono",monospace,serif;margin:0px"><li class="gmail-li1" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:decimal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(172,172,172)"><div class="gmail-de1" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">GDAL 3.11.0dev-394ae61fee-dirty, released 2024/10/24</div></li></ol><font color="#000000" face="Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, Lucida Console, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, monospace, serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font><div><font style="">

</font></div><div>Thanks a lot - hopefully someone else finds this useful as well ! <br><br>cheers,<br>Varun</div></div></div>