Take this Tree and Pack it

Noticing this a little late, but have a peak at these posts from Chris Hodgson about how the R-Tree fails for variable density GIS data, and his approach to a packing process. Unfortunately, packing is a post-facto process, and it’s not clear to me how we would do it with the GiST infrastructure that undergirds the PostGIS database. But it’s nice to see a good R-Tree and a reminder of just how ugly they can get under the covers.