[mapserver-users] testing mapserver large files rendering improvements

[Jeff McKenna]

My vote is for Paul's default qix creation option, by MapServer.   
Let's make life easy for those beginner Windows users.

-jeff





On 15-May-08, at 12:07 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Daniel Morissette wrote:
>> Guillaume Sueur wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> In my mind, we should do the right thing by default, and give the
>>>> power users the option to opt out, rather than forcing everyone to
>>>> become a power user to achieve something as basic as indexed file
>>>> access.
>>>
>>> +1 for this approach
>>>
>> The right thing to do is not the same in everyone's eyes.
>
> Folks,
>
> I'm also against mapserver automatically creating .qix files, for  
> the reasons
> Daniel and others have given.
>
> I'd add that current shapefile update tools (including he mapscript  
> shapefile
> writing code, Shapelib and OGR) do *not* update .qix files.  If  
> secretly
> create a .qix file for a shapefile that is being periodically  
> updated all
> hell is likely to break out.
>
> BTW, .qix files can be *relatively* large.  For a shapefile of  
> points, the
> .qix can easily be bigger than the .shx file.
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
>