Thanks for the introduction @EvenRouault !

Needless to say I'm a huge fan of ShapefiIe (@[email protected]) , flatgeobuf and GeoPackage . I love you all! Don't be shy and let me compress you in the most refined way.

Seek-Optimized ZIP file (SOZip) - makes it possible to access large compressed files directly from a .zip file without prior decompression. github.com/sozip/sozip-sp…

New blog about seek-optimized ZIP's (SOZip) bertt.wordpress.com/2023/01/10/see…

Thanks for giving a try at us! Small technical correction: the "sozip" utility is/will be part of the GDAL command line utilities suite, and is thus a native C++ tool. The python "sozipfile" module is an independant implementations that can also be used to create SOZip files.

I'm happy to inform you of the first production use of SOZip! I've just sent my quaterly accounting documents to my accountant as a SOZip. Let's hope she doesn't notice anything... Fingers crossed!

Certains disent de moi que je suis le ZIP optimisé pour le Nuage. Il y a du vrai là dedans, à condition que ce qu'on me fait compresser est aussi compatible nuage. A bon entendeur...

This is what happens when you have a discussison about OGC standards with ChatGPT and then asks something else:

And for large Geodatabase tables, I'd highly suggest using me to improve performance.

I share a lot of similarities with this Parallel PNG proposal: github.com/DavidBuchanan3…. I knew I could not possibly be alone in this universe.

SOZip: Seek-Optimized Zip geoobserver.wordpress.com/2023/01/20/soz… #sozip via @EvenRouault Bert Temme #gdal #ogr #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #opensource #spatial #geospatial #gis #geo #geoObserver

shapefile is the best geospatial file format of 2023. I defend my dissertation.

Only true when compressed by yours truly

Try me now on Conda Forge with QGIS ! conda create --name sozip_test conda activate sozip_test conda install -c gdal-master gdal conda install -c conda-forge qgis And with a GeoPackage file: sozip -j out.gpkg.zip /path/to/in.gpkg qgis out.gpkg.zip

All that made possible by us. And practicality of working directly from #shizzle will increase again when sozip reaches your GDAL build

We were born a few months ago. This is like our baptism!

The SOZip (Seek Optimized Zip) format support in GDAL looks very promising. Learn more at SOZip.org and the slide deck below.