[geos-devel] OGR and Shape.idx

[Tyler Mitchell]

> 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. 

What version of ArcView are you targetting? 

> Isn't there a way of launching ArcView scripts "in batch" as part of 
your
> whole transfer process?

One of the more powerful ways I've found (for external scripting of 
Arcview3) may be to use the AvPython product.
http://avpython.sourceforge.net/ 

Many have confirmed that for Arc9, rudimentary python scripting support 
will be available and bundled with ArcMap!

Tyler
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