Hi A while ago I proposed the idea of SQLite as the "The Shapefile of the future?" - and Im still supporting it, especially the Spatialite extension. As I'm aware that there are webservices, there are still situations where a downloadable, single, binary file format has it's reasons - always having the "Simple Feature Model" in mind.
Now, there's also another extension called "SQLite Provider" implemented in FDO [1] and i'd liked to give it a chance. But my impression is that this extension is not used broadly - even not internally, since the project page is rather outdated [2] And even for webservices: When asked which vector geodata file format to choose for the response part to make a project interoperable, I'd answer, it depends... * it could be GML Version 2 (2.1.2, not higher!) if XML is preferred (and if archiving is involed like in gov. data), * or GeoJSON, if it's between (HTML5) webapppliations, * else pseudo-compatible GML Version 3 (especially "3.1.1 Compliance level SF-0"), KML or proprietary. What do you think? Yours, S. [1] http://fdo.osgeo.org/content/fdo-370-downloads [2] http://fdo.osgeo.org/OSProviderOverviews.html _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
