[mapserver-users] Is there still a 2GB size limit on shapefiles?

[Roger André]

Very interesting to know this. Thank you all for the feedback.

I did use the OGR connector and it worked fine, but I assumed the native
reader was faster.
On May 8, 2013 9:53 PM, "Stephen Woodbridge" <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
wrote:

> In general the shapefile spec is owned by ERSI and unless they change the
> spec you will have a problem. Last I knew, there are pointers/offsets
> inside the shapefile that are only 32bits wide per the spec. it is because
> of these that you are limited to 2GB.
>
> At some point I thought Frank W or someone was working on a version of
> shapelib that could support greater than 2GB, but only programs that used
> that version would be able to read/write these larger files. I have not
> heard anything on that front in a while so I don't know if that was just
> talk, or code ever materialized.
>
> -Steve W
>
> On 5/9/2013 12:32 AM, Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am not sure either if reading >2GB shapefiles works with the native
>> shp reader on all platforms, but as the ticket says, you should be
>> able to use OGR connection in the mapfile even with your current
>> version. If you use OGR you can also split the shapefile into pieces
>> and read them through the ogr tileindex system which may be faster
>> sometimes.
>>
>> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>>
>> ______________________________**__ Andrea Peri wrote:
>>
>>  If it don't work you should evalute the option to use spatialite.
>>> It work well with dataset greater than 2GB . I use it with
>>> mapserver 6.3dev and gdal 1.10.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/5/9 Roger André <randre at gmail.com<mailto:randr**e at gmail.com<randre at gmail.com>
>> >>
>> Pretty sure I just hit
>> this<http://trac.osgeo.org/**mapserver/ticket/3514<http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3514>>
>> problem in my 6.0.3
>> local stack.  I haven't tested it in the current release, but does
>> anyone know for sure that a shapefile with any component larger than
>> 2GB works in 6.2?
>>
>> Roger
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