file size issue

[Jerl Simpson]

That's the same conclusion I came to as well.  I thought I could
either use the C API or I could use the tile index files.  They are
all broken up into smaller files.  The issue with that is I would have
to modify the shp2mysql.pl file so it did not create a new table in
the database for each file of the tiling.

Thanks again,

Jerl


> 
> Jerl,
> 
> I think I may have missed something. If my understanding (from a
> conference session today) is correct the problem lies in GEO::Shapelib
> itself. It appears that it reads the geometries into an array which
> would still mean you would need enough ram to read the entire shapefile.
> The only workaround is to use shapelib via C directly instead of through
> the perl module. From C you would be able to iterate over each entity.
> 
> Lowell
>