mapshaper 0.6.0 → 0.6.4

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@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ Firefox is able to load Shapefiles and GeoJSON files larger than 1GB. Chrome has
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  **Command line interface**
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- There are hard limits for reading and writing most file types. The maximum output size of a single file of any type is 2GB. Some file types (GeoJSON, CSV, .shp) are read incrementally, so much larger files can be imported.
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+ There are hard limits for reading and writing most file types. The maximum output size of a single file of any type is 2GB. Some file types (GeoJSON, CSV, .shp, .dbf) are read incrementally, so much larger files can be imported.
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  When working with very large files, mapshaper may become unresponsive or crash with the message "JavaScript heap out of memory."
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- One option is to run `mapshaper-xl`, which allocates more memory than the standard `mapshaper` program (8GB by default). Starting with version 0.4.131, you can specify the amount of memory to allocate like this: `mapshaper-xl 20gb [commands]`.
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+ You can use `mapshaper-xl` as a replacement for the standard `mapshaper` program to allocate more heap memory (8GB by default). You can allocate even more memory like this: `mapshaper-xl 20gb [commands]`.
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- Another solution is to run Node directly with the `--max-old-space-size` option. The following example (Mac or Linux) allocates 16GB of memory:
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+ Another option is to run Node directly with the `--max-old-space-size` option. The following example (Mac or Linux) allocates 16GB of heap memory:
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  ```bash
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  $ node --max-old-space-size=16000 `which mapshaper` <mapshaper commands>
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  ```