On 09.04.2012, at 18:22, Reed Underwood wrote: > I began tinkering recently with a non-relational self-contained binary format > for feature data and indices. The toolkit includes Spidermonkey for querying > and view generation using Javascript. It's written in C and uses tokyocabinet > for storage and libgeos for topology/geometry. The idea was to build a > manager on top of this for distributed, eventually-consistent geospatial data > storage. > > I'd be very interested in talking about alternatives to shapefiles, including > the very cursory work I did. The project, called "Grist" is on github: > > https://github.com/runderwood/grist
This is interesting. Reminds me UnQLite [1] which seems to be the direction to go. SQL-based things with fixed structures is so jurassic. But you need to keep it very light and portable, using set of heavy dependencies can break your neck easily. 1 - http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/UnQL Jaak _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
