How to organize my data

[ModyBuchbinder]

Hi All

I have cluster of machines for GeoAnalytics.

I have some 50M points in some shapefiles.

If I can control it, am I better with 5 shapefiles with 10M points each or with 50 shapefiles with 1M points each?

What is the rules here?

Thanks

[SarahAmbrose]

Hi Mody Buchbinder‌,

In this case it doesn't make a big difference on how you organize your data. GeoAnalytics will read in the data based on the number of features in the big data file share dataset (so all shp that form the dataset). The thing to be aware of is that you don't want a shp file that is bigger than allowed - which is 2GB. As long as each shapefile is smaller than that, you should be good to go.

Please let me know if you have any follow up questions.

Thanks,

Sarah

Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics Team

[ModyBuchbinder]

Great, I will give it a try