On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 20:08, Toby Speight <[email protected]>wrote:

> 0> In article <
> [email protected]<aanlktike5uqw%[email protected]>
> >,
> 0> Chris Browet <URL:mailto:[email protected]> ("Chris") wrote:
>
> Chris> *0.18*
> Chris>
> Chris> Some of the things I have in mind for 0.18:
> Chris>
> Chris>    - Spatialite
> Chris>    The tests I've been running with Spatialite for the plugin
> Chris>    incite me of thinking about a *Spatialite backend* for
> Chris>    Merkaartor, alongside the traditional memory/XML current way.
> Chris>    The advantages will be a builtin spatial index (hopefully no
> Chris>    more "indexing...")  and the possibility to load and query far
> Chris>    greater datasets than is possible today.
>
> Something I've been contemplating for a while is to build a tool for
> helping find duplicate or very close nodes (without continuously
> switching to and from KeepRight).  It sounds like I should hold off this
> until the spatial index code is stabilised?
>

Not necessarily.

Using Spatialite as a backend, the usual Node/Way/Relation interface will
still be there.
What would change is the way they are saved/restored and their lifecycle
(i.e. they could be generated "on-demand" from the backend)

- Chris -
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