Chris Hanson <xenon <at> alphapixel.com> writes: > > > An application my client is pursuing involves generating and displaying linework (contours) for state-sized areas. These will be (among other things) displayed via Geoserver. > > > > > We are able to generate the contour data with gdal, but the output is now exceeding the 2GB format limit of Shapefiles. > > I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a format or other strategy for handling large data like this? I think in the end we may end up breaking it up into tiles, but figured I'd ask first.
Hi, Spatialite is flexible and fast and quite easy to create at least up to 10 GB db file size. However, Java and native Spatialite binaries are tricky to put to play together. The Spatialite community module is probably easy to install http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/community/spatialite/index.html but it seems to use Spatialite version 2.4.0 while the current one is 4.1.0 and I wouldn't recommend that. However, Paul Ramsey is working on GeoPackage driver for GDAL and Boundless is building a GeoPackage community module for Geoserver so perhaps the answer is OGC GeoPackage, the shapefile of the hopefully near future. -Jukka Rahkonen- _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev