[mapserver-users] testing mapserver large files rendering improvements

[Paul Ramsey]

I've ticketed the idea in this form.

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2618

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> I think this is the best option because it gives control to the package
> builders and anyone that is a power user.
>
> I would also like to see msdebug report missing qix files. This is a
> valuable tuning tools for power users.
>
> Thanks,
>  -Steve
>
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>
>> I have another "third way" option, which would be a compile-time
>> directive (--with-auto-qix) so that packagers can make dummy-friendly
>> builds if they so desire.
>>
>> ??
>>
>> P
>>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Jeff McKenna <jeffmckenna at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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,
>>>> --
>>>>
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