[Live-demo] Provide .fix files for all Shapefiles

[Brian Hamlin]

On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> The naturalearth data shapefiles are loaded by bin/loadgisdata.sh
>
> It is loaded from the naturalearth website directly.
>
> I'm open to you adding .fix files if you think it is easy enough to 
> achieve.
>

to be clear...
I am in favor of applications that want a .fix file, to generate them
*not* to change the source repository somehow
or create our own mirror "plus" repository

maybe that is not what you want to do, and we are already in alignment

the master data source, that is the Natural Earth site
is going to be very widely relied upon
IMO we would do better to write scripts that use it exactly as it is
and then add any additional features locally

best regards
   -Brian


> On 10/08/10 21:10, Stefan A. Tzeggai wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> I have installed the rc5 to my HDD and started investigating the
>> problems reported for AtlasStyler and Geopublisher. This is what 
>> happens:
>>
>> The natural earth shapes don't have .fix spatial indexes. AtlasStyler
>> tries to create them on-the-fly and gets a permission exception.
>>
>> I will write a fix, so that that will not be a problem anymore, but
>> maybe we should anyways add .fix files to all Shapefiles on the DVD.
>>
>> .fix files are supported by Geotools, so uDig, Geoserver,
>> Geopublisher and AtlasStyler (and probably more) would profit
>> performance-wise.
>>
>> The data dir is not in the svn.. Tell me where it is, and i can 
>> provide
>> .fix files for all shapefiles.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Steve
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