diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index cde41757..65698b2a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-#Changelog
+# Changelog
 
 ## 1.48.1
 Released 2018-mm-dd
 
+Announcements:
+ * Added `RESIZE=yes` param to gdal shapefile driver, wich optimizes size of exported shapefiles [#462](https://github.com/CartoDB/CartoDB-SQL-API/pull/462)
+
 
 ## 1.48.0
 Released 2018-02-12
diff --git a/app/models/formats/ogr.js b/app/models/formats/ogr.js
index 80b1a7da..8d1f2fbe 100644
--- a/app/models/formats/ogr.js
+++ b/app/models/formats/ogr.js
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ OgrFormat.prototype.toOGR = function(options, out_format, out_filename, callback
 
       var ogrargs = [
         '-f', out_format,
+        '-lco', 'RESIZE=YES',
         '-lco', 'ENCODING=UTF-8',
         '-lco', 'LINEFORMAT=CRLF',
         out_filename,