Seems like a small RFC is in order... --Steve On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 5:57 AM Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> (to followup from our chat on IRC yesterday) > > To clarify: this would be a new native format in MapServer, such as > Shapefile or PostGIS, and the goal would be to not connect to FlatGeobuf > through OGR, but instead directly, such as: > > DATA countries.fgb > > instead of: > > CONNECTIONTYPE OGR > CONNECTION "countries.fgb" > DATA "countries" > > This should improve the performance even more. And it will be easy to > update the documentation, as the existing files just need to be updated > (see the new page at https://mapserver.org/input/vector/flatgeobuf.html ) > > Great plan Björn! I look forward to your Pull Request, ha, and will > tackle the documentation changes for you. > > This is also great news for MapServer, and will give us some nice > publicity. > > Thanks so much! > > -jeff > > > > On 2022-04-25 5:57 p.m., Björn Harrtell wrote: > > Hi mapserver devs! > > > > I got interested in the subject because of the tests made recently by > > Jeff that shows the potential of the format. I believe it should be > > possible to get significant additional performance out of FlatGeobuf in > > MapServer if it was built in just like Shapefile support is. > > > > FlatGeobuf C++ implementation is rather small, doesn't require any > > dependencies, and I don't expect it to require any invasive changes to > > existing code. > > > > Would love to get started on this ASAP, if there are no objections. :) > > > > Regards, > > Björn Harrtell > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MapServer-dev mailing list > > MapServer-dev@lists.osgeo.org > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev > > > -- > Jeff McKenna > GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training > co-founder of FOSS4G > http://gatewaygeo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > MapServer-dev mailing list > MapServer-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev >
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