[geos-devel] OGR and Shape.idx

[Paul Ramsey]

No answer available. Shape index files are proprietary and no published 
format exists. I do not think anyone has bothered to try and reverse 
engineer them.

P.

On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Düster Horst wrote:

> I work with large datasets > 1'000'000 recs in a PostGIS DB. For 
> direct use
> with ArcView we need to export these data to ESRI shapefiles with 
> ogr2ogr.
> This export works automatically and nightly very stable. Now I'm faced 
> with
> the problem that this export doesn't create spatial indexes. Working 
> with
> this data in ArcView is very slow. My solution today, I create this 
> indexes
> by hand with ArcView every day.
>
> Now I'm looking for a better solution to automate the shape index 
> creation.
> I'm appreciative for every hint.
>
> With best regards
>
> Dr. Horst Düster
> GIS-Koordinator
>
> Amt für Geoinformation
> Abteilung SO!GIS Koordination
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> 4509 Solothurn
>
> Tel.: 032 627 25 32
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>
> horst.duester at bd.so.ch <mailto:horst.duester at bd.so.ch>
> www.sogis.so.ch <http://www.sogis.so.ch/>
>
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      Paul Ramsey
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