Re: [Geotools-devel] Removing rtree support from indexed shapefile datastore

[Andrea A. <aa...@op...>]

Jody Garnett ha scritto:
> Jesse does refer to his from udig in a preference page; I am not sure
> if he did that because it was there or if there was a useful reason.

Well, it's in the GeoServer page too, but afaik nobody is using
it (the default is quadtree).

> My thought would be to kill it; (noting that qix is not ESRI standard
> either right; just happens to also be used by map server right?).

While I'm not sure, I believe every project using OGR can actually
use the .qix file, so the set is large enough to call it a de-facto
standard in the open source world.

Cheers
Andrea

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