[mapserver-dev] Proposal/request to implement FlatGeobuf as built-in format

[Steve Lime]

Seems like a small RFC is in order... --Steve

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 5:57 AM Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
wrote:

> (to followup from our chat on IRC yesterday)
>
> To clarify: this would be a new native format in MapServer, such as
> Shapefile or PostGIS, and the goal would be to not connect to FlatGeobuf
> through OGR, but instead directly, such as:
>
>    DATA countries.fgb
>
> instead of:
>
>    CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>    CONNECTION "countries.fgb"
>    DATA "countries"
>
> This should improve the performance even more.  And it will be easy to
> update the documentation, as the existing files just need to be updated
> (see the new page at https://mapserver.org/input/vector/flatgeobuf.html )
>
> Great plan Björn!  I look forward to your Pull Request, ha, and will
> tackle the documentation changes for you.
>
> This is also great news for MapServer, and will give us some nice
> publicity.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2022-04-25 5:57 p.m., Björn Harrtell wrote:
> > Hi mapserver devs!
> >
> > I got interested in the subject because of the tests made recently by
> > Jeff that shows the potential of the format. I believe it should be
> > possible to get significant additional performance out of FlatGeobuf in
> > MapServer if it was built in just like Shapefile support is.
> >
> > FlatGeobuf C++ implementation is rather small, doesn't require any
> > dependencies, and I don't expect it to require any invasive changes to
> > existing code.
> >
> > Would love to get started on this ASAP, if there are no objections. :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Björn Harrtell
> >
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>
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> Jeff McKenna
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