Paul Ramsey

On the systems side (packaged software installed using rpm/deb) I feel like this is quite doable: - For each package measure "popularity" (btw, using github alone is going to miss...

Need a hot-or-not game for OSS projects that devs can play while their NPM modules download and their native code compiles

Should there be some extra doco to go with this?

Not a joke: much of what has been said above is reflected in the hoary old shapefile specification. https://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf

Depends a great deal on the dependency load... I can't see GEOS picking it up if it requires adding in some dependency. I can easily see an PgSQL FDW that...

Yes, there's some signed ints in there that limit offsets to 2GB. Would this big a "big data" esqeue format? https://bjornharrtell.github.io/flatgeobuf/

Yes, the effect can be the same either way. Data with highly variable density will show this effect more than homogeneous data. I wouldn't necessarily expect any huge performance gains...

Just that one version too, very impressive.

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@dr-jts thoughts?