Volker Mische's blog
FOSS4G 2011: Report
[This post also appears on Volker's vmx blog.]
The FOSS4G 2011 is over now. Time for a small report. The crowd was amazing and it was again the ultimate gathering of the Free and Open Source for Geospatial developer tribe. Solid presentations and great evenings.
GeoCouch: Bulk Insertion
The new release of GeoCouch improves the spatial index building time a lot (up to 10x). This comes from using a new bulk insertion algorithm. The spatial index (an R-tree) is implemented as an append-only data structure — just as CouchDB's B-trees are — which benefits from the nature of bulk insertions by allowing large blocks of the index to be appended at one time.
New release: GeoCouch as Extension
A new milestone has been reached: GeoCouch is now an extension for CouchDB that can be easily installed with your already running instance of CouchDB. Installing the GeoCouch extension is as easy as using the GeoCouch Git-based source with your existing CouchDB source base (>=1.0.2).
