Thanks for the info. I'll look into GeoPackage! Jan
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Even Rouault <[email protected]>wrote: > Le mercredi 30 avril 2014 22:02:34, Jan Heckman a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Extending shapefile capabilities: The one reason which might persuade > > anyone is the still abundant use of shapefiles for dataexchange. > > Shapefile does seem to play a vital role there. I don't know of anything > > equally 'tradeable'. > > However, an extension would also endanger the > > interoperability/dataexchange, so little of this would work short of > > definining a new shapefile variant specification, working title .shp2. > > I can see the outlines, even though I doubt it will be possible to > > introduce such a thing. The mods would not be that hard, though. > > I'm not sure there's a point in defining a .shp2 spec. The GeoPackage one > can > be thought as the "new shapefile". > It should have all its main advantages : > - spatial index > - random access > - binary encoding of geometries > > Plus a few nice features : > - attribute indexes > - database format, with SQL capabilities > - binary encoding of attributes > - extensibility > > Its history is admitedly a bit young, but the specification is already > standardized and has begun to be implemented in various software packages, > including OGR. > > -- > Geospatial professional services > http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html >
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