Jeff,
as a data point, perhaps you could enhance your bench with shapefiles
through OGR ? It would be interesting to have a sense of the OGR
overhead (that will be the same for any OGR supported datasource) to
have an idea if it is really worth the effort to have a native
FlatGeobuf provider for MapServer w.r.t going through OGR (it is hard to
beat shapefile, and the current difference between shapefile and
flatgeobuf is small)
Even
Le 26/04/2022 à 12:57, Jeff McKenna a écrit :
(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
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