very large tile index

[Gregor Mosheh]

Ludovico Bianchini wrote:
> if I understood completely those suggestions are for raster images. I'm 
> in a same trouble with a large (indexing 2500 tile) shape file index,
> generated with tile4ms. How can I "mosaic" many shape files?

Use ogrtindex (as compared to gdaltindex) in much the same way.

All of the issues described here are identical in nature: finding and 
opening many files is inherently slow and should be avoided when possible.

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