[Mapserver-users] speeding up large shapefiles

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi list,

I saw a few posts from early 2003 about speeding up large shapefiles, but 
never found any conclusions on the subject.

I have a question with regard to speeding up large shapefiles:

would it make sense to split up my large (350 Mb) shapefile in tiles, and 
then use an OGR tileindex on the tiles (with quadtree indexes on both 
tileindex and tiles)? If so, can anything be said about an ideal tile size 
in Mb, or is this too much dependent on the data?

Ofcourse this will also be dependent on the area I am displaying with my 
shapefile, and the maximum area a user can get displayed (by using the 
MINSCALE/MAXSCALE settings in my MAP file).

Thanks in advance for any input on this.

Best regards,
Bart