Hi Chaitanya Thanks for this information. So I'm going to commit the workaround to QGIS for now and remove it later once your work is finished (and the corresponding OGR version found it's way into most standard distros).
Regards, Marco -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Chaitanya kumar CH [mailto:chaitanya...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Fr 31.07.2009 14:47 An: Hugentobler Marco Cc: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Betreff: Re: [gdal-dev] Shapefile spatial index and updates Marco, I have been working on this. http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2798 On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Hugentobler Marco < marco.hugentob...@karto.baug.ethz.ch> wrote: > Hi gdal/ogr devs > > In QGIS, there is a bug where updates to shapefiles are not displayed until > the spatial index of a shapefile is recreated ( > http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1572). > > It seems to me that OGR does not update the index automatically when > calling e.g. OGR_L_CreateFeature and then OGR_L_SyncToDisk. > > What I did is to check (in the ogr provider of qgis) if the shapefile > already has an index file and, if yes, create a new spatial index. But this > way, the whole index needs to be recreated, so I wanted to ask here on the > list if you know about any more efficient and / or more elegant way to solve > this problem. > > > Thanks for your help, > Marco > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > Best regards, -- Chaitanya kumar CH. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
