>Well, if SpatiaLite offers some "proper" benefits and disseminates through all of the FOSS world, then it may get a >strong enough push even for ESRI to pick it up. It happened before... (kml?)
>
>If SL would:
>
>1) Be as fast as shapefile in production settings, desktop and webgis
>
>2) Offer SQL support, spatial and otherwise, also through desktop tools like QGIS
>
>3) Allow editing while serving (even if for 1 editor only)
>
>4) Better support in QGIS than for shapefile (take advantage of Spatial SQL, all other functionality)
>
>5) Same for MapServer, GeoServer, gvSIG, et al.
>
>6) Allow easy managing of rasters inside the .db file, through QGIS
>
>7) ??more ideas/requests??
- Be a single file when seen in a file manager
- Have metadata as part of the file, rather than a separate file, to avoid getting lost when copying data
- Have "zoom layering" built into the file, ie the data is not reliable when you zoom in too much.
Regards,
Nick
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