Monks,

I am looking for a Perl implementation of R-Tree (spatial indexes). I am aware of the only one on CPAN Tree::R, but that hasn't been tended in ages and has very poor documentation.

My primary purpose is to learn more about R-Trees, more than I can learn from http://www.rtreeportal.org/, by reading Guttman's paper http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/sigmod/Guttman84.html and Beckmann et. al. http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/sigmod/BeckmannKSS90.html. I have also downloaded some basic C code, but I am more conversant with Perl than with C.

While Perl maybe an inappropriate language for implementing an R-Tree index because of speed reasons, it can be a great learning tool, and it can also be quite appropriate for small datasets.

Any pointers in this quest would be greatly appreciated.

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In reply to Perl R-Tree by punkish

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