Hi, On 05/24/11 11:24, Igor Brejc wrote:
This could be a more serious issue. I guess in the history of GIS there has never been such a large geo database as OSM is now becoming. Maybe we (as the OSM community) should take a proactive stance and propose a new version of shapefile format that could cope with 64 bits. Yes, I know this is daydreaming, but shapefile format is getting old anyway. Something using protocol buffers could be a new way to go - easier to write readers and writers and taking less space, too.
I think in the free/open world, "spatiallite" is trying to be shapefile 2.0, whereas in the ESRI world, that would be the "personal geodatabase" (for which, incidentally, a 64bit Linux API is announced for Mid-May).
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