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Volker Krause authored
Conceptually this is a depth-limited quad tree. Practically this is implemented using a z-order curve and run-length encoding that in a vector together with the corresponding timezone. With the current settings the result is about 200kB, a maximum error distance of about 300m and a surface coverage of 99.2% for yielding the correct IANA timezone or 99.6% for yielding at least an equivalent IANA timezone. Not too bad considering the timezone shapefile that is the input for all this is 100+MB. Lookup cost is minimal, a single binary search and no memory allocations. The generation script is supposed to run inside QGIS with the IANA timezone shapefile loaded. With the current parameters it should finish within an hour on 8 cores. Before being fully integrated this needs a few more measurements with different parameters. Also still to be investigated is how this can replace the about 74kB worth of timezone data in the airport and train station databases.
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