2012/4/9 Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]>: > 2012/4/9 Stefan Keller <[email protected]>: >> Private development: That's the current show stopper. That's why I >> proposed it to become an OSGEO project. That's also where the "SQLite >> Provider" comes in but which I found only used (half-hartedly?) in >> FDO. > > Folks, > > For what it's worth at one point the FDO guys, and EvenR and I > on behalf of GDAL/OGR tried to nail down details of how to use > Sqlite as a geodatabase and we hoped in way that was interoperable > with SpatialLite. I'm not exactly clear on the state of things now. > I know that the OGR Sqlite driver will now try and use spatialite > functions including the spatial index if available. I'm not sure if > it still works properly against spatialite databases without actually > having spatiallite linked in. > > My *ambition* was a well specified schema in Sqlite so that > apps could depend on it for interoperability with or without having > spatiallite available. However the spatialite project didn't seem to > want to get tied down to something stable and I lost interest. > > I still like the idea of sqlite as a geodatabase but I haven't the > fortitude to advocate strongly for how I think it ought to work. > > Best regards,
Hi Frank I'm happy that you drop in. I'm cc'ing to QGIS developer.This unfortunate and unclear situation was one of the reasons why I came up with this question about the "Shapefile of the Future". That was which made propose to look at the spatial extension of SQLite 3 "the FDO way" [1], since I think this is well done and good documented (except not being often used?). My idea was to implement that in OGR and in QGIS natively. Luckily we could agree on this as open source community and by just doing it. But before someone starts, I liked to discuss it a little bit. -S. [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FDORfc16 and http://fdo.osgeo.org/content/fdo-370-downloads _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
