Jukka Rahkonen writes:
Hi,
I am combining some GIS data where each layer is divided to around
thousand
separare shapefiles by mapsheets. Now I would like to store all the
35000
shapefiles to something that is more easy to handle. At first pushing
each layer
to own Spatialite database
Hi,
Interesting topic !
The most efficient way is the one which will fit your needs the best.
Forget the OneShape idea, but I think you can either have a database
approach (either PostGIS or Oracle) or a file approach (your thousands
of shapefiles).
It depends on what you have to do with data and
Hi,
Maybe I need to clarify a bit my aim. This is huge dataset with hundreds of
layers and we do not use actively all of them. The layers we need we will
insert to Oracle database but it is a managed, hosted production system and it
is far too expensive to use it as a backyard storage shed.
Perhaps, although not yet supported by GDAL because publication of the format is
not due until 2010, the new ESRI File geodatabase might be something to explore.
This is limited only be any operating system restrictions on size and appears
to be replacing the shapefile in due course. However,
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
I can tell now that shapefile format is not suitable at all. The shp
part can obviously not go over 2 GB limit because after that ogr2ogr
throws these error messages:
ERROR 1: Error in psSHP-sHooks.FSeek() or fwrite() writing object to
.shp file.
